Potadoma buttikoferi

Potadoma buttikoferi
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Pachychilidae
Genus:	Potadoma
Species:	P. buttikoferi
Binomial name
Potadoma buttikoferi (Schepman, 1888) [2]
Synonyms [1]
Melania buttikoferi Schepman, 1888

Potadoma buttikoferi is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Pachychilidae.

Distribution

This species occurs in:

• Liberia

The type locality is "on rocks in the St. Paul's River near Bavia", Liberia. ^[2]

References

1. Van Damme, D. (2020). "Potadoma buttikoferi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2020 e.T165399A151144400. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T165399A151144400.en .
2. Schepman M. M. (1888). "Zoological researches in Liberia. List of Mollusca, with descriptions of new species". Notes from the Leyden Museum 10: 245-252, page 249, plate 10, figure 5.