Pomacea aldersoni explained

Pomacea aldersoni is a South American species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

Etymology

P. aldersoni is named after the British conchologist and malacologist E. G. Alderson, who authored a revision of the genus Ampullaria in 1925.^[1]

Distribution

The native distribution of P. aldersoni is Ecuador. It was described from thirteen specimens which were collected in Santa Barbara, about 272 km SE. of Quito, in 1939.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Pain, T.. 1946. Two new species of Pila (= Ampullaria) from South America. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 180–181, pl. 6. https://archive.today/20140327140401/http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/6/180.extract. dead. 27 March 2014. 27 March 2014.