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Pomacea dolioides

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Pomacea dolioides is a South American species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.[1] It was identified by Lovell Augustus Reeve in 1856.[2]

Pomacea dolioides
Apertural view of a shell of Pomacea dolioides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Pomacea
Species:
P. dolioides
Binomial name
Pomacea dolioides
(Reeve, 1856)

Distribution

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The native distribution of this snail is Brazil.[3]

References

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  1. ↑ Global Biodiversity Information Facility website, Pomacea dolioides
  2. ↑ World Registry of Marine Species website, ID 349482
  3. ↑ ResearchGate website, Morphology of Pomacea-Dolioides Shell

External links

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  • Biodiversity Library website, Illustrations of the Shells of Mulloscous Animals, Vol X, by L. A. Reeve (1856) (online copy)


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