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Asolene spixii

Asolene spixii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Ampullarioidea
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Asolene
Subgenus: Asolene
Species: A. spixii
Binomial name
Asolene spixii
(d'Orbigny, 1838)
Synonyms

Ampullaria spixii d'Orbigny, 1838 (original combination)
Ampullaria zonata d'Orbigny, 1835 (invalid: junior homonym of Ampullaria zonata Spix, 1827; A. spixii is a replacement name)


Ampullaria spixii d'Orbigny, 1838 (original combination)
Ampullaria zonata d'Orbigny, 1835 (invalid: junior homonym of Ampullaria zonata Spix, 1827; A. spixii is a replacement name)

Asolene spixii is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails and their allies.

The specific name spixii is in honour of German biologist Johann Baptist von Spix.

Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.



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