Pomacea eximia

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

informal group Architaenioglossa

Superfamily: Ampullarioidea
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Pomacea
Subgenus: Pomacea
Species: P. eximia
Binomial name
Pomacea eximia
(Dunker, 1853)

Pomacea eximia 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. eximia is endemic to Venezuela.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Pastorino, G. & Darrigan, G. (2011). "Pomacea eximia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2013). "Pomacea eximia (Dunker, 1853)". 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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