Misplaced Pages

Pomacea prunella

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Species of snail

Pomacea prunella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Ampullarioidea
Family: Ampullariidae
Subfamily: Pomaceinae
Genus: Pomacea
Species: P. prunella
Binomial name
Pomacea prunella
Hupé, 1857
Synonyms
  • Ampullaria prunella Hupé, 1857 (original combination)

Pomacea prunella is a species of freshwater snail in the family Ampullariidae, native to Brazil. They have also been found in French Guiana. Unlike other New World Ampullariids, P. prunella has a calcified, rather than corneous, operculum.

References

  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. "Pomacea prunella (Hupé, 1857)". MolluscaBase. Retrieved 2022-01-15. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  2. "Pomacea prunella (Hupé, 1857)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
  3. Cowie, Robert H.; Héros, Virginie (December 2012). "Annotated catalogue of the types of Ampullariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, with lectotype designations". Zoosystema. 34 (4): 793–824. doi:10.5252/z2012n4a8. S2CID 85073646.
Taxon identifiers
Pomacea prunella


Stub icon

This Ampullariidae-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: