Potadoma liberiensis
Potadoma liberiensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
Family: | Pachychilidae |
Genus: | Potadoma |
Species: | P. liberiensis |
Binomial name | |
Potadoma liberiensis (Schepman, 1888)[2] | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Melania Liberiensis Schepman, 1888 |
Potadoma liberiensis is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.
Distribution
This species occurs in:
The type locality is "on rocks in the St. Paul's River near Bavia", Liberia.[2]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Kristensen T. K. & Stensgaard A-S. (2010). "Potadoma liberiensis". In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 4 November 2012.
- 1 2 Schepman M. M. (1888). "Zoological researches in Liberia. List of Mollusca, with descriptions of new species". Notes from the Leyden Museum 10: 245-252, pages 248-249, plate 10, figure 4.
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