Pomacea

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Pomacea
Pomacea bridgesii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Superorder: Caenogastropoda Order: Architaenioglossa Superfamily: Ampullarioidea Family: Ampullariidae Genus: Pomacea (Perry, 1810)

Pomacea is a genus of freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae.

[edit] Species within the genus Pomacea

Species in the genus Pomacea include^[1][2]:

• subgenus Effusa Jousseaume, 1889
  • Pomacea glauca (Linné, 1758)
  • Pomacea cumingi (Reeve, 1843)

• subgenus Pomacea Perry, 1810
  • Pomacea canaliculata (Lamarck, 1819)
  • Pomacea insularum (D'Orbigny, 1839)
  • Pomacea lineata (Spix, 1827)
  • Pomacea doliodes (Reeve, 1856)
  • Pomacea haustrum (Reeve, 1856)
  • Pomacea gigas / Pomacea maculata (Perry, 1810)
  • Pomacea flagellata (Say, 1827)
  • Pomacea livescens (Reeve, 1856)
  • Pomacea erogata (Fisher & Crosse, 1890)
  • Pomacea dysoni (Hanley, 1854)
  • Pomacea bridgesii (Reeve, 1856)
  • Pomacea scalaris (D'Orbigny, 1835)
  • Pomacea columellaris (Gould, 1848)
  • Pomacea decussate (Moricand)
  • Pomacea paludosa (Say, 1829)
  • Pomacea catamarcensis (Sowerby, 1874)
  • Pomacea cyclostoma (Spix, 1827)
  • Pomacea papyracea (Spix, 1827)
  • Pomacea hanleyi (Reeve, 1856)
  • Pomacea urceus (Müller, 1774)

• subgenus ?
  • Pomacea diffusa

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• applesnails of Florida, Pomacea spp. on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site