Pomacea camena

Pomacea camena
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Ampullarioidea
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Pomacea
Subgenus: Pomacea
Species: P. camena
Binomial name
Pomacea camena
(Pain, 1949)

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

Distribution

P. camena is endemic to Venezuela, where it is found in a shallow stream near Lagunella, at an altitude of 8000 m.[2]

References

  1. Pastorino, G. & Darrigan, G. (2011). "Pomacea camena". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2011: e.T189002A8673395. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T189002A8673395.en. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  2. Cowie R.H. & Thiengo S.C. (2003). "The apple snails of the Americas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Asolene, Felipponea, Marisa, Pomacea, Pomella): A nomenclatural and type catalog". Malacologia. 45 (1): 41–100. Retrieved 27 March 2014.


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