Biology:Pomacea hollingsworthi

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Pomacea hollingsworthi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
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Class:
Gastropoda
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Subgenus:
Pomacea
Species:
P. hollingsworthi
Binomial name
Pomacea hollingsworthi
(Pain, 1946)

Pomacea hollingsworthi is a South American species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.[1]

Distribution

The native distribution of P. hollingsworthi is Colombia. It was described from fifteen specimens, collected in a swiftly flowing stream with a rocky bed near Bogota in February 1939.[2][3]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q16988387 entry