Pomacea aldersoni

Pomacea aldersoni
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Family:	Ampullariidae
Genus:	Pomacea
Species:	P. aldersoni
Binomial name
	Pomacea aldersoni; (Pain, 1946)

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]

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

^ ^a ^b Lasso, C.; Correoso, M. (2016). "Pomacea aldersoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T189456A58626297. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T189456A58626297.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
^ ^a ^b Pain, T. (1946). "Two new species of Pila (= Ampullaria) from South America". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London: 180–181, pl. 6. Archived from the original on 27 March 2014. Retrieved 27 March 2014.

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[iucn_status_11_November_2021-1] Lasso, C.; Correoso, M. (2016). "Pomacea aldersoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T189456A58626297. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T189456A58626297.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.

[Pain-2] Pain, T. (1946). "Two new species of Pila (= Ampullaria) from South America". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London: 180–181, pl. 6. Archived from the original on 27 March 2014. Retrieved 27 March 2014.

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