Potadoma buttikoferi

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Potadoma buttikoferi
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Domain: Eukaryota
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:

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

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References

  1. 1 2 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. 1 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.