| Pomacea lineata | |
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| apertural view of the shell of Pomacea lineata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Ampullarioidea |
| Family: | Ampullariidae |
| Genus: | Pomacea |
| Subgenus: | Pomacea |
| Species: | P. lineata |
| Binomial name | |
| Pomacea lineata (Spix, 1827) |
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Pomacea lineata is a species of a freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
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Pomacea lineata is used as zootherapeutical product for the treatment to asthma, sprains, boils and ulcer in traditional Brazilian medicine in Northeast of Brazil.[1]