Pomacea poeyana
Appearance
Pomacea poeyana | |
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shell of Pomacea poeyana | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Architaenioglossa |
Family: | Ampullariidae |
Genus: | Pomacea |
Species: | P. poeyana
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Binomial name | |
Pomacea poeyana (Pilsbry, 1927)
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Pomacea poeyana is a species of large freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
Distribution
[edit]Pomacea poeyana is endemic to Cuba, where it is well distributed.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Vázquez A. A. & Perera S. (2010). "Endemic Freshwater molluscs of Cuba and their conservation status". Tropical Conservation Science 3(2): 190-199. HTM, PDF.