Pomacea zischkai
| Pomacea zischkai | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Ampullarioidea |
| Family: | Ampullariidae |
| Genus: | Pomacea |
| Subgenus: | Pomacea |
| Species: | P. zischkai |
| Binomial name | |
| Pomacea zischkai (Blume & Pain, 1952) | |
Pomacea zischkai 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]
Etymoloogy
P. zischkai is named after Bolivian biologist Rodolfo Zischka, who discovered it.[2]
Distribution
P. zischkai is endemic to Bolivia. It is found in the Chapare region, at an altitude of 400 m.[3]
References
- 1 2 Pastorino, G. & Darrigan, G. (2011). "Pomacea zischkai". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
- ↑ "Pomacea zischkai Blume & Pain, 1952". SysTax - a Database System for Systematics and Taxonomy. University of Ulm & Ruhr-University of Bochum. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
- ↑ 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 28 March 2014.
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