Pomacea paludosa

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Pomacea paludosa
Temporal range: Pliocene-present
Pomacea paludosa drawing.jpg
Colored engraving of a live Pomacea paludosa made by Helen Lawson († 1854) and published in 1845 A monograph of the freshwater univalve Mollusca of the United States: including notices of species in other parts of North America by Samuel Stehman Haldeman.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Ampullarioidea
Family:
Ampullariidae
Genus:
Pomacea
Subgenus:
Pomacea
Species:
P. paludosa
Binomial name
Pomacea paludosa
(Say, 1829)
Synonyms [2]
  • Ampullaria caliginosa Reeve, 1856
  • Ampullaria depressa Say, 1824 (invalid: junior homonym of Ampullaria depressa Lamarck, 1804; A. paludosa is a replacement name)
  • Ampullaria hopetonensis I. Lea, 1834
  • Ampullaria miamiensis Pilsbry, 1899
  • Ampullaria paludosa Say, 1829 (original combination)
  • Ampullaria pinei Dall, 1898 (junior synonym)
  • Pomacea (Pomacea) paludosa (Say, 1829) · accepted, alternate representation
  • Pomacea paludosa flava M. Smith, 1937

Pomacea paludosa, common name the Florida applesnail, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

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Shell description

Five views of a shell of Pomacea paludosa Pomacea paludosa 01.JPG
Five views of a shell of Pomacea paludosa

This species is the largest freshwater gastropod native to North America. [3]

The shell is globose in shape. The whorls are wide, the spire is depressed, and the aperture is narrowly oval. [3] The shells are brown in color, and have a pattern of stripes.

The shell is 60 millimetres (2.4 in) in both length and width. [3]

Distribution

The indigenous distribution of this snail is central and southern Florida, [4] Cuba and Hispaniola. [5]

The nonindigenous distribution includes northern Florida. The species has also been found in Georgia, Oahu, Hawaii (Devick 1991)[ citation needed ], Louisiana, and Oklahoma. [5]

Ecology

The maturation of eggs of Pomacea paludosa: freshly laid eggs in a thick mucus matrix have a salmon coloration (left). Mature eggs in calcified shells are pinkish white in color (right). Pomacea paludosa eggs maturation.jpg
The maturation of eggs of Pomacea paludosa: freshly laid eggs in a thick mucus matrix have a salmon coloration (left). Mature eggs in calcified shells are pinkish white in color (right).

This is a tropical species. It is amphibious, and can survive in water bodies that dry out during the dry season. [3]

Applesnails have both gills and lungs.

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References

  1. ↑ Cordeiro, J. & Perez, K. (2011). "Pomacea paludosa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . IUCN. 2011: e.T189339A8718219. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T189339A8718219.en . Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  2. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. "Pomacea paludosa (Say, 1829)". MolluscaBase. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Burch, J. B. 1982. North American freshwater snails. Walkerana 1(4):217-365.
  4. ↑ Thompson, F.G. 1984. The freshwater snails of Florida: a manual for identification. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, 94 pp.
  5. 1 2 Dundee, D. S. 1974. Catalog of introduced molluscs of eastern North America (north of Mexico). Sterkiana 55:1-37.

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