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Pomacea hollingsworthi

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Pomacea hollingsworthi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
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Subgenus:
Pomacea
Species:
P. hollingsworthi
Binomial name
Pomacea hollingsworthi
(Pain, 1946)

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.[1]

Distribution

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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.[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ a b Correoso, M.; Lasso, C. (2016). "Pomacea hollingsworthi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T189577A58627463. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T189577A58627463.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Pain, T. (1946). "Two new species of Pila (= Ampullaria) from South America". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London: 180–181, pl. 6. Archived from the original on 27 March 2014. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
  3. ^ Cowie R.H. & Thiengo S.C. (2003). "The apple snails of the Americas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Asolene, Felipponea, Marisa, Pomacea, Pomella): A nomenclatural and type catalog". Malacologia. 45 (1): 41–100. Retrieved 27 March 2014.