Pomacea zischkai

Pomacea zischkai
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
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]

Etymology

P. zischkai is named after Bolivian biologist Rodolfo Zischka, who discovered it. ^[2]

Distribution

P. zischkai is endemic to Bolivia. It is found in the Chapare region, at an altitude of 400 m. ^[3]

References

1. Pastorino, G.; Darrigan, G.; Goitia, E. (2016). "Pomacea zischkai". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T188979A58579497. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T188979A58579497.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. "Pomacea zischkai Blume & Pain, 1952". SysTax - a Database System for Systematics and Taxonomy. University of Ulm & Ruhr-University of Bochum. Retrieved 28 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 28 March 2014.