Pomacea aurostoma

Pomacea aurostoma
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Family:	Ampullariidae
Genus:	Pomacea
Species:	P. aurostoma
Binomial name
Pomacea aurostoma (Lea, 1856)

Pomacea aurostoma 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

The native distribution of P. aurostoma is Colombia and Venezuela. ^{[2] [3]}

References

1. Pastorino, G.; Darrigan, G. (2011). "Pomacea aurostoma". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2011 e.T189558A8748382. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T189558A8748382.en . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
2. Simone, L. R. L. (2006). Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil. São Paulo, Brazil: EGB, Fapesp. p. 390. ISBN   85-906670-0-6.
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.