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Titan Applesnail

Pomacea haustrum

Classification

Pomacea haustrum, common name the titan applesnail, is a species of large freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the applesnails. Original description Pomacea haustrum was originally described under the name Ampullaria haustrum by Lovell Augustus Reeve in his book Conchologia Iconica, in 1856. In Reeve's original text, (the type description) reads as follows: Species 23.

Distribution

(c) Luis Ruiz Berti, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC-BY-SA
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 2