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Potadoma buttikoferi

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Species of gastropod

Potadoma buttikoferi
Conservation status

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Pachychilidae
Genus: Potadoma
Species: P. buttikoferi
Binomial name
Potadoma buttikoferi
(Schepman, 1888)
Synonyms

Melania buttikoferi Schepman, 1888

Potadoma buttikoferi is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Pachychilidae.

Distribution

This species occurs in:

The type locality is "on rocks in the St. Paul's River near Bavia", Liberia.

References

  1. ^ Van Damme, D. (2020). "Potadoma buttikoferi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T165399A151144400. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T165399A151144400.en.
  2. ^ Schepman M. M. (1888). "Zoological researches in Liberia. List of Mollusca, with descriptions of new species". Notes from the Leyden Museum 10: 245-252, page 249, plate 10, figure 5.
Taxon identifiers
Potadoma buttikoferi


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