Asolene

Asolene
A drawing of an apertural view of the shell of Asolene petiti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Ampullarioidea
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Asolene
d'Orbigny, 1838
Diversity[1]
7 species

Asolene is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

The distribution of the genus Asolene includes South America.[2]

Species

There were recognized seven species within the genus Asolene as of 2011, when Asolene included subgenus Pomella Gray, 1847.[3][2]

There are recognized 7[1] species within the genus Asolene:

synonyms:

  • Asolene americana (v. Ihering, 1919)[2] is a synonym of ...
  • Asolene fairchildi (Clench, 1933)[2] is a synonym of Pomacea sinamarina (Bruguière, 1792)[8]
  • Asolene megastoma (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)[2] is a synonym of Pomacea megastoma (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)[9]

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2013). Asolene d'Orbigny, 1838. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737459 on 2017-06-08
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Asolene". The apple snail website, Accessed 16 May 2011.
  3. ↑ Gray J. E. (1847). "A List of the Genera of recent Mollusca, their Synonyma and Types". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 129-206. page 148.
  4. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2013). Asolene crassa (Swainson, 1823). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737589 on 2017-06-08
  5. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2013). Asolene granulosa (G. B. Sowerby III, 1894). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737591 on 2017-06-08
  6. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2013). Asolene meta (Ihering, 1915). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=741236 on 2017-06-08
  7. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2013). Asolene spixii (d'Orbigny, 1838). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737599 on 2017-06-08
  8. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2013). Pomacea sinamarina (Bruguière, 1792). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=741103 on 2017-06-08
  9. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2013). Pomacea megastoma (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=741102 on 2017-06-08


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