Pomacea quinindensis

Pomacea quinindensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Ampullarioidea
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Pomacea
Subgenus: Effusa
Species: P. quinindensis
Binomial name
Pomacea quinindensis
(K. Miller, 1879)

Pomacea quinindensis 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][2]

Distribution

P. quinindensis is endemic to Ecuador. It is currently known from only a few specimens collected from the Rio Quinindé.[1][3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Pastorino, G. & Darrigan, G. (2011). "Pomacea quinindensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2013). "Pomacea quinindensis (K. Miller, 1879)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
  3. 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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