Asolene

Asolene
A drawing of an apertural view of the shell of Asolene petiti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Ampullarioidea
Family:	Ampullariidae
Genus:	Asolene d'Orbigny, 1838
Diversity[1]
7 species

Asolene is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

The distribution of the genus Asolene includes South America.^[1]

Species

There are seven^[1] species within the genus Asolene:

Subgenus Asolene

• Asolene petiti (Crosse, 1891)^[1]
• Asolene platae (Maton, 1809) - type species^[1]
• Asolene pulchella (Anton, 1839)^[1]
• Asolene spixi (d'Orbigny, 1837)^[1]

Subgenus Pomella Gray, 1847^[2]

• Asolene americana (v. Ihering, 1919)^[1]
• Asolene fairchildy (Clench, 1933)^[1]
• Asolene megastoma (Sowerby, 1825)^[1]

References

1. "Asolene". The apple snail website, Accessed 16 May 2011.
2. Gray J. E. (1847). "A List of the Genera of recent Mollusca, their Synonyma and Types". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 129-206. page 148.

External links

• "Asolene". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).