Pomacea aurostoma

Pomacea aurostoma 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 aurostoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Ampullarioidea
Family:
Ampullariidae
Genus:
Pomacea
Subgenus:
Pomacea
Species:
P. aurostoma
Binomial name
Pomacea aurostoma
(Lea, 1856)

Distribution

The native distribution of P. aurostoma is Colombia and Venezuela.[2][3]

References
  1. Pastorino, G. & Darrigan, G. (2011). "Pomacea aurostoma". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T189558A8748382. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T189558A8748382.en. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  2. Simone, L. R. L. (2006). Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil. São Paulo, Brazil: EGB, Fapesp. p. 390. ISBN 85-906670-0-6.
  3. 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.


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