Pomacea: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Architaenioglossa
- Family
- Ampullariidae
- Genus
- Pomacea
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Pomacea
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pomacea
Pomacea is a genus of freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails. The genus is native to the Americas; most species in this genus are restricted to South America.
In the aquarium trade these snails are sometimes called Pomacea or incorrectly Ampullarius, and in English as "[color] mystery snail" or "apple snail".
Some species have been introduced outside their native range and are considered invasive because of their voracious appetite for plants. Because of this, imports involving this genus are restricted in some regions (including the United States) and are entirely banned in others (including the EU).
...Pomacea in languages:
- Chinese
- 福壽螺屬
- Chinese
- 果瓶螺屬(福壽螺屬)
- English
- Common Apple Snails
- Korean
- 왕우렁이속
- Thai
- หอยเชอร์รี
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Pomacea aldersoni
- Pomacea americanista
- Pomacea armeniaca
- Pomacea aulanieri
- Pomacea aurostoma
- Pomacea avellana
- Pomacea baeri
- Pomacea bridgesii
- Pomacea bulla
- Pomacea camena
- Pomacea canaliculata
- Pomacea castelloi
- Pomacea catamarcensis
- Pomacea catemacensis
- Pomacea cerasum
- Pomacea chemnitzii
- Pomacea cingulata
- Pomacea citreum
- Pomacea columbiensis
- Pomacea columellaris
- Pomacea commissionis
- Pomacea conoidea
- Pomacea consolatrix
- Pomacea cornucopia
- Pomacea costaricana
- Pomacea cousini
- Pomacea cumingii
- Pomacea dacostae
- Pomacea decussata
- Pomacea diffusa
- Pomacea eximia
- Pomacea expansa
- Pomacea falconensis
- Pomacea fasciata
- Pomacea flagellata
- Pomacea glauca
- Pomacea guyanensis
- Pomacea haustrum
- Pomacea hollingsworthi
- Pomacea interrupta
- Pomacea lattrei
- Pomacea levior
- Pomacea linnaei
- Pomacea maculata
- Pomacea megastoma
- Pomacea miltocheila
- Pomacea modesta
- Pomacea ocanensis
- Pomacea occulta
- Pomacea palmeri
- Pomacea paludosa
- Pomacea papyracea
- Pomacea patula
- Pomacea pealiana
- Pomacea pernambucensis
- Pomacea physoides
- Pomacea picta
- Pomacea poeyana
- Pomacea pomatia
- Pomacea producta
- Pomacea prunella
- Pomacea pulchra
- Pomacea quinindensis
- Pomacea reflexa
- Pomacea reyrei
- Pomacea scalaris
- Pomacea sinamarina
- Pomacea sordida
- Pomacea superba
- Pomacea swainsoni
- Pomacea tenuissima
- Pomacea urceus
- Pomacea vexillum
- Pomacea zeteki
- Pomacea zischkai
- Pomacea zonata
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