Pomacea canaliculata

Pomacea canaliculata
Five views of a shell of Pomacea canaliculata, Shell diameter 8 cm (3+1⁄4 in)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Ampullarioidea
Family:
Ampullariidae
Genus:
Pomacea
Subgenus:
Pomacea
Species:
P. canaliculata
Binomial name
Pomacea canaliculata
(Lamarck, 1819)

Pomacea canaliculata, commonly known as the golden apple snail or the channeled apple snail, is a species of large freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails. South American in origin, this species is considered to be in the top 100 of the "World's Worst Invasive Alien Species".[2] It is also ranked as the 40th worst alien species in Europe and the worst alien species of gastropod in Europe.[3]

  1. ^ Pastorino, G.; Darrigan, G. (2012). "Pomacea canaliculata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T166261A1124485. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T166261A1124485.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ 100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species. Global Invasive Species Database http://www.iucngisd.org/database, accessed 29 September 2023.
  3. ^ Nentwig W, Bacher S, Kumschick S, Pyšek P, Vilà M (18 December 2017). "More than "100 worst" alien species in Europe". Biological Invasions. 20 (6): 1611–1621. doi:10.1007/s10530-017-1651-6. hdl:10261/158710.