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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