Pomacea ocanensis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Architaenioglossa
- Family
- Ampullariidae
- Genus
- Pomacea
- Species
- Pomacea ocanensis
- Scientific Name
- Pomacea ocanensis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pomacea ocanensis
Pomacea ocanensis is a species of freshwater snail in the Ampullariidae family. Wilhelm Kobelt originally described the species as a subspecies of Ampullaria auriformis in 1914.
It is native to Colombia and resides in the shallow margins of the Magdalena River near OcaƱa, Norte de Santander.
A critically endangered species, P. ocanensis faces threats of declining habitat quality due to urbanization, local water management, and pollution. It is the only member of Pomacea considered Endangered or Critically Endangered by the IUCN and one of only two Ampullariids to be Critically Endangered.
...Pomacea ocanensis in languages:
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- Endangered Columbian Apple Snail
Parent Taxon
Sibling 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