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Pomacea hollingsworthi

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Ampullariidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Ampullarioidea

Genus
  
Pomacea

Similar
  
Pomacea dolioides, Pomacea urceus, Pomacea glauca, Pomacea lineata, Pomacea paludosa

Pomacea hollingsworthi is a South American species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

Distribution

The native distribution of P. hollingsworthi is Colombia. It was described from fifteen specimens, collected in a swiftly flowing stream with a rocky bed near Bogota in February 1939.

References

Pomacea hollingsworthi Wikipedia