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Pomacea columellaris

Pomacea columellaris is a South American species of freshwater snail in the apple snail family, Ampullariidae.[2]

Pomacea columellaris
Shell of Pomacea columellaris
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Pomacea
Species:
P. columellaris
Binomial name
Pomacea columellaris
(A. Gould, 1848)
Synonyms[1]
  • Ampullaria columellaris Gould, 1848
  • Ampullaria robusta Philippi, 1852
  • Pomacea (pomacea) columellaris (A. Gould, 1848)· accepted, alternate representation

Taxonomy

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Pomacea columellaris was originally described as Ampullaria columellaris by Augustus Addison Gould in 1848, based on a holotype shell collected during the United States Exploring Expedition from 1838-1842.[3] They were named for their notable columella, comparable to those of Helix land snails.[4] In 1904, Dall proposed a section or subgenus of Ampullaria (later treated as synonymous with Pomacea) called Limnopomus,[5] with A. columellaris as the type species.[6] After 1991, Limnopomus was also considered synonymous with Pomacea.[7][8]

Shell description

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The species has a heavy, oval shell with a sharp spire.[9] Its operculum is corneous and able to retract inside the shell's aperture.[9][10] They lack an umbilicus[4] and are often yellow in color.[10]

Distribution

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P. columellaris is found in rivers in the highlands of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador (Pastaza Province),[11] and Peru.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Pomacea columellaris (A. Gould, 1848)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
  2. ^ Cowie, Robert H.; Thiengo, Silvana C. (2003). "The apple snails of the Americas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Asolene, Felipponea, Marisa, Pomacea, Pomella): A nomenclatural and type catalog". Malacologia. 45: 60. Retrieved September 9, 2021 – via BioStor.
  3. ^ H. Cowie, Robert; A Hayes, Kenneth; Strong, Ellen E. (2019-09-12). "Types of Ampullariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, with Lectotype Designations". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (645): 4. doi:10.5479/si.1943-6696.645.
  4. ^ a b "[Shells collected by the United States Exploring Expedition under the command of Charles Wilkes.]". Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 3: 73–75. 1848 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  5. ^ a b Prashad, B. (1932). "Some Noteworthy Examples of Parallel Evolution in the Molluscan Faunas of South-eastern Asia and South America". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 51: 42–53. doi:10.1017/S0370164600022987. ISSN 0370-1646.
  6. ^ Dall, W. H. (1904). "Notes on the genus Ampullaria". Journal of Conchology. 11 (2): 50–55 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  7. ^ Cazzaniga, Néstor J. (April 2004). "Old species and new concepts in the taxonomy of Pomacea (Gastropoda: Ampullariidae)". Biocell. 26 (1): 71–81. ISSN 0327-9545. PMID 12058383.
  8. ^ Bieler, Rüdiger (July 1993). "Ampullariid Phylogeny – Book Review and Cladistic Re-analysis". The Veliger. 36: 291–299 – via ResearchGate.
  9. ^ a b "Pomacea columellaris (Gould, 1848)". www.applesnail.net. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
  10. ^ a b "Studies in Ampullaria". Nature. 116 (2912): 275. 1925. Bibcode:1925Natur.116Q.275.. doi:10.1038/116275a0. ISSN 1476-4687. S2CID 4136804.
  11. ^ Rodriguez, Modesto Correoso; Espinosa, Esteban; Rodriguez, Marcela Coello (2017). "Pomacea canaliculata in Ecuador: a recent pest with multiple implications". In Joshi, Ravindra C.; Cowie, Robert H.; Sebastian, Leocadio S. (eds.). Biology and Management of Invasive Apple Snails. Science City of Muñoz: Philippine Rice Research Institute. p. 261. ISBN 978-621-8022-25-6.
  • Simone, L. R. L. (2006). Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil. Editora Grafíca Bernardi, FAPESP. São Paulo, 390 pp
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