Biology:Pomacea aldersoni
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Short description: Species of gastropod
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| Class: | Gastropoda
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| Subgenus: | Pomacea
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| Species: | P. aldersoni
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| Pomacea aldersoni (Pain, 1946)
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Pomacea aldersoni 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]
Etymology
P. aldersoni is named after the British conchologist and malacologist E. G. Alderson, who authored a revision of the genus Ampullaria in 1925.[2]
Distribution
The native distribution of P. aldersoni is Ecuador. It was described from thirteen specimens which were collected in Santa Barbara, about 272 km SE. of Quito, in 1939.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lasso, C.; Correoso, M. (2016). "Pomacea aldersoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T189456A58626297. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T189456A58626297.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/189456/58626297. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pain, T. (1946). "Two new species of Pila (= Ampullaria) from South America". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London: 180–181, pl. 6. http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/6/180.extract. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
Wikidata ☰ Q16988359 entry
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