Pomacea pealiana

Pomacea pealiana 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]

Pomacea pealiana

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Ampullarioidea
Family:
Ampullariidae
Genus:
Pomacea
Subgenus:
Pomacea
Species:
P. pealiana
Binomial name
Pomacea pealiana
(Lea, 1838)

Distribution

P. pealiana is endemic to Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Panama[2] and Brazil.[3]

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References
  1. Pastorino, G. & Darrigan, G. (2011). "Pomacea pealiana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2014.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Cowie R.H. & Thiengo S.C. (2003). "The apple snails of the Americas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Asolene, Felipponea, Marisa, Pomacea, Pomella): A nomenclatural and type catalog". Malacologia. 45 (1): 41–100. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
  3. Simone, L. R. L. (2006). Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil. São Paulo: FAPESP. ISBN 85-906670-0-6.


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