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Pomacea prunella

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Pomacea prunella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Ampullarioidea
Family: Ampullariidae
Subfamily: Pomaceinae
Genus: Pomacea
Species:
P. prunella
Binomial name
Pomacea prunella
Hupé, 1857
Synonyms[1]
  • Ampullaria prunella Hupé, 1857 (original combination)

Pomacea prunella is a species of freshwater snail in the family Ampullariidae, native to Brazil.[1] They have also been found in French Guiana.[2] Unlike other New World Ampullariids, P. prunella has a calcified, rather than corneous, operculum.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. "Pomacea prunella (Hupé, 1857)". MolluscaBase. Retrieved 2022-01-15. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ "Pomacea prunella (Hupé, 1857)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
  3. ^ Cowie, Robert H.; Héros, Virginie (December 2012). "Annotated catalogue of the types of Ampullariidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, with lectotype designations". Zoosystema. 34 (4): 793–824. doi:10.5252/z2012n4a8. S2CID 85073646.