Pomacea scalaris: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Architaenioglossa
- Family
- Ampullariidae
- Genus
- Pomacea
- Species
- Pomacea scalaris
- Scientific Name
- Pomacea scalaris
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pomacea scalaris
Pomacea scalaris is a species of freshwater snail of the Ampullariidae ("apple snails") family. It was described by Alcide d'Orbigny in 1835. It is found in Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, Brasil, and Uruguay. It is invasive in Taiwan. First documented in 1989, it was possibly introduced alongside Pomacea canaliculata illegally brought to the country for aquaculture.
Pomacea scalaris can grow to a shell length of at least 31 mm (1.2 in).
...Pomacea scalaris in languages:
- Chinese
- 梯狀果瓶螺
- Chinese
- 梯狀福壽螺
- Czech
- ampulárka tmavá
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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
































