Biology:Pomacea auriformis
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Short description: Species of snail
Pomacea auriformis | |
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Scientific classification (disputed) | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Architaenioglossa |
Superfamily: | Ampullarioidea |
Family: | Ampullariidae |
Subfamily: | Pomaceinae |
Genus: | Pomacea |
Species: | P. auriformis
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Binomial name | |
Pomacea auriformis Reeve, 1856
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Pomacea auriformis is a species of freshwater snail in the family Ampullariidae, described by Lovell Augustus Reeve in 1856 as Ampullaria auriformis.[1] Its distribution is along the Caribbean coast of Central America.[2] There has been debate over whether this species may be a subspecies of Ampullaria hopetonensis.[3]
References
- โ 1.0 1.1 "Pomacea auriformis (Reeve, 1856)". https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=741376.
- โ Thompson, Fred (2011-01-01). "An annotated checklist and bibliography of the land and freshwater snails of Mexico and Central America". Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 50. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228981068.
- โ Cowie, R.; Thiengo, S. (2003). "The apple snails of the Americas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Asolene, Felipponea, Marisa, Pomacea, Pomella): A nomenclatural and type catalog" (in en). Malacologia.
Wikidata ☰ Q110536196 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomacea auriformis.
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