Pomacea aldersoni

Pomacea aldersoni 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]

Pomacea aldersoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Ampullarioidea
Family:
Ampullariidae
Genus:
Pomacea
Subgenus:
Pomacea
Species:
P. aldersoni
Binomial name
Pomacea aldersoni
(Pain, 1946)

Etymology

P. aldersoni is named after the British conchologist and malacologist E. G. Alderson, who authored a revision of the genus Ampullaria in 1925.[2]

Distribution

The native distribution of P. aldersoni is Ecuador. It was described from thirteen specimens which were collected in Santa Barbara, about 272 km SE. of Quito, in 1939.[2]

References
  1. Pastorino, G. & Darrigan, G. (2011). "Pomacea aldersoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2014.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Pain, T. (1946). "Two new species of Pila (= Ampullaria) from South America". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London: 180–181, pl. 6. Retrieved 27 March 2014.


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