Pomacea hollingsworthi explained

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

Distribution

The native distribution of P. hollingsworthi is Colombia. It was described from fifteen specimens, collected in a swiftly flowing stream with a rocky bed near Bogota in February 1939.[1] [2]

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.
  2. Cowie R.H.. Thiengo S.C.. amp . 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. 27 March 2014.