Pomacea glauca

Pomacea glauca
Shell of Pomacea glauca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Ampullarioidea
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Pomacea
Subgenus: Effusa
Species: P. glauca
Binomial name
Pomacea glauca
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Pomacea glauca is a species of freshwater gastropod in the family Ampullariidae.

The species varies greatly in color, shape and size, growing to around 70 mm. Its colors include a pale yellow with brown spiral bands to darker shades of brown or purple with darker bands.

Contents

Distribution

The species is found in the Dominican Republic, Lesser Antilles and northern South America including Venezuela, Colombia,[1] Brazil and on the West Indian island of Dominica.[2]

Ecology

It generally inhabits clean, clear water where it can reach high population densities. The eggs are bright green and around the size of a small pea.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Perera G. & Walls J. G. (1996) Apple Snails in the Aquarium. T. F. H. Publications Inc., 55-56.
  2. ^ (German) Starmühlner F. von (1988). "Ergebnisse der Österreichisch-Französischen Hydrobiologischen Mission 1979 nach Guadeloupe, Dominica und Martinique (Kleine Antillen). Teil II: Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Süß- und Brackwassermollusken von Guadeloupe, Dominica und Martinique". Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien Serie B, 90: 221-340. PDF.