Pomacea maculata

Pomacea maculata
Apertural view of a shell of Pomacea maculata
Live Pomacea maculata floating and eating a carrot
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Ampullarioidea
Family:
Ampullariidae
Genus:
Pomacea
Subgenus:
Pomacea
Species:
P. maculata
Binomial name
Pomacea maculata
Perry, 1810
Synonyms[2]

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  • Island apple snail
  • Ampullaria gigas Spix, 1827[1]
  • Ampullaria insularum d'Orbigny, 1835
  • Pomacea insularum (d'Orbigny, 1835)

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Pomacea maculata is a species of large freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

The common name of its synonymous name Pomacea insularum is the island apple snail.

Together with Pomacea canaliculata it is the most invasive species of the family Ampullariidae.[2] It is considered as about the 58th worst alien species in Europe.[3]

  1. ^ Riess, Karlem (March 1946). "Snail Studies in Elementary Biology". The American Biology Teacher. 8 (6): 131–133. doi:10.2307/4437709. JSTOR 4437709.
  2. ^ a b Hayes, K. A.; Cowie, R. H.; Thiengo, S. C.; Strong, E. E. (2012). "Comparing apples with apples: clarifying the identities of two highly invasive Neotropical Ampullariidae (Caenogastropoda)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 166 (4): 723–753. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00867.x.
  3. ^ Nentwig, Wolfgang; Bacher, Sven; Kumschick, Sabrina; Pyšek, Petr; Vilà, Montserrat (2017-12-18). "More than '100 worst' alien species in Europe". Biological Invasions. 20 (6): 1611–1621. doi:10.1007/s10530-017-1651-6. hdl:10261/158710. ISSN 1387-3547.