Potadoma buttikoferi

Potadoma buttikoferi is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.

Potadoma buttikoferi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Pachychilidae
Genus:
Potadoma
Species:
P. buttikoferi
Binomial name
Potadoma buttikoferi
(Schepman, 1888)[2]
Synonyms[1]

Melania buttikoferi Schepman, 1888

Distribution

This species occurs in:

The type locality is "on rocks in the St. Paul's River near Bavia", Liberia.[2]

References
  1. Van Damme, D. (2020). "Potadoma buttikoferi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T165399A151144400. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  2. Schepman M. M. (1888). "Zoological researches in Liberia. List of Mollusca, with descriptions of new species". Notes from the Leyden Museum 10: 245-252, page 249, plate 10, figure 5.


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