Pomacea insularum
| Pomacea maculata | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Pomacea maculata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Ampullarioidea |
| Family: | Ampullariidae |
| Genus: | Pomacea |
| Subgenus: | Pomacea |
| Species: | P. maculata |
| Binomial name | |
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Pomacea maculata Perry, 1810 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Island apple snail |
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informal group Architaenioglossa
Island apple snail
Ampullaria gigas Spix, 1827
Ampullaria insularum d'Orbigny, 1835
Pomacea insularum (d'Orbigny, 1835)
Pomacea maculata is a species of large freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
Common name of its synonymous name Pomacea insularum is the island applesnail.
Together with Pomacea canaliculata it is the most invasive species of the family Ampullariidae.
The indigenous distribution of Pomacea maculata is South America.Pomacea maculata is reported from Argentina, Brazil, and Bolivia and it probably occurs in Uruguay and Paraguay.
The type locality is the Río Paraná, which joins the Río Uruguay just above Buenos Aires, forming the Río de la Plata. The area between the Paraná and the Uruguay is the Argentine province of Entre Ríos, the southern part of which is marshy, with channels connecting the Paraná and the Uruguay.
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