Pomacea aldersoni

Pomacea aldersoni
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (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. 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

Pastorino, G. & Darrigan, G. (2011). "Pomacea aldersoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2014.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url
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.

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[iucn-1] Pastorino, G. & Darrigan, G. (2011). "Pomacea aldersoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2014.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url

[Pain-2] 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.