Pomacea zischkai | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Architaenioglossa |
Family: | Ampullariidae |
Genus: | Pomacea |
Species: | P. zischkai |
Binomial name | |
Pomacea zischkai (Blume & Pain, 1952) | |
Pomacea zischkai 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]
P. zischkai is named after Bolivian biologist Rodolfo Zischka, who discovered it. [2]
P. zischkai is endemic to Bolivia. It is found in the Chapare region, at an altitude of 400 m. [3]