Pomacea cousini

Pomacea cousini
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

informal group Architaenioglossa

Superfamily: Ampullarioidea
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Pomacea
Subgenus: Pomacea
Species: P. cousini
Binomial name
Pomacea cousini
(Jousseaume, 1877)

Pomacea cousini 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][2]

Distribution

P. cousini is endemic to Ecuador.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Pastorino, G. & Darrigan, G. (2011). "Pomacea cousini". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2013). "Pomacea cousini (Jousseaume, 1877)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
  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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