Pomacea scalaris

Pomacea scalaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Family:	Ampullariidae
Subfamily:
Genus:	Pomacea
Species:	P. scalaris
Binomial name
Pomacea scalaris (d'Orbigny, 1835)[1]
Synonyms
Ampullaria angulata Jay, 1836 Ampullaria angulata Deshayes, 1850 (invalid: junior homonym of Ampullaria angulata Jay, 1836) Ampullaria scalaris d'Orbigny, 1835 (original combination) Pomacea (Pomacea) scalaris (d'Orbigny, 1835)· accepted, alternate representation

Pomacea scalaris is a species of freshwater snail of the Ampullariidae (common name "apple snail") family, described by Alcide d'Orbigny in 1835.^[2]

References[]

• Simone, L. R. L. (2006). Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil. Editora Grafíca Bernardi, FAPESP. São Paulo, 390 pp.

External links[]

• 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
• MNHN, Paris: syntype

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