Pomacea aldersoni
| Pomacea aldersoni | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Ampullarioidea |
| Family: | Ampullariidae |
| Genus: | Pomacea |
| Subgenus: | Pomacea |
| Species: | P. aldersoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Pomacea aldersoni (Pain, 1946) | |
Pomacea aldersoni 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]
Etymology
P. aldersoni is named after the British conchologist and malacologist E. G. Alderson, who authored a revision of the genus Ampullaria in 1925.[2]
Distribution
The native distribution of P. aldersoni is Ecuador. It was described from thirteen specimens which were collected in Santa Barbara, about 272 km SE. of Quito, in 1939.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pastorino, G. & Darrigan, G. (2011). "Pomacea aldersoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pain, T. (1946). "Two new species of Pila (= Ampullaria) from South America". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London: 180–181, pl. 6. Retrieved 27 March 2014.