Pila ampullacea
| Pila ampullacea | |
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| The shell and operculum of Pila ampullacea | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Ampullarioidea |
| Family: | Ampullariidae |
| Subfamily: | Ampullariinae |
| Tribe: | Ampullariini |
| Genus: | Pila |
| Species: | P. ampullacea |
| Binomial name | |
| Pila ampullacea (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Ampullaria ampullacea (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
Pila ampullacea, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
Distribution
Description
Five views of a shell of Pila ampullacea
As food
Pila ampullacea, together with Pila pesmei, are indigenous rice field snail species traditionally eaten in Thailand that have been displaced by the invasive Golden Apple. In Indonesia, it is famous as "keong sawah" as traditional cuisine which is often boiled or grilled as satay. Snail, Pomacea canaliculata.[3]
References
- ↑ Sri-aroon, P. & Richter, K. 2012. Pila ampullacea. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T184900A1763173. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T184900A1763173.en. Downloaded on 07 June 2017.
- ↑ Bouchet, P. (2013). Pila ampullacea (Linnaeus, 1758). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737456 on 2017-06-07
- ↑ Heavy Predation on Freshwater Bryozoans by the Golden Apple Snail, Pomacea canaliculata Lamarck, 1822 (Ampullariidae); The Natural History Journal of Chulalongkorn University 6(1): 31-36, May 2006
External links
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