| Asolene | |
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| A drawing of an apertural view of the shell of Asolene petiti | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Ampullarioidea |
| Family: | Ampullariidae |
| Genus: | Asolene d'Orbigny, 1838 |
| Diversity | |
| 7 species | |
Asolene is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
The distribution of the genus Asolene includes South America.
Species
There were recognized seven species within the genus Asolene as of 2011, when Asolene included subgenus Pomella Gray, 1847.
There are recognized 7 species within the genus Asolene:
- Asolene crassa (Swainson, 1823)
- Asolene granulosa (G. B. Sowerby III, 1894)
- Asolene meta (Ihering, 1915)
- Asolene petiti (Crosse, 1891)
- Asolene platae (Maton, 1809) - type species
- Asolene pulchella (Anton, 1839)
- Asolene spixii (d'Orbigny, 1837)
synonyms:
- Asolene americana (v. Ihering, 1919) is a synonym of ...
- Asolene fairchildi (Clench, 1933) is a synonym of Pomacea sinamarina (Bruguière, 1792)
- Asolene megastoma (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825) is a synonym of Pomacea megastoma (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)
References
- ^ Bouchet, P. (2013). Asolene d'Orbigny, 1838. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737459 on 2017-06-08
- ^ "Asolene". The apple snail website, Accessed 16 May 2011.
- Gray J. E. (1847). "A List of the Genera of recent Mollusca, their Synonyma and Types". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 129-206. page 148.
- Bouchet, P. (2013). Asolene crassa (Swainson, 1823). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737589 on 2017-06-08
- Bouchet, P. (2013). Asolene granulosa (G. B. Sowerby III, 1894). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737591 on 2017-06-08
- Bouchet, P. (2013). Asolene meta (Ihering, 1915). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=741236 on 2017-06-08
- Bouchet, P. (2013). Asolene spixii (d'Orbigny, 1838). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=737599 on 2017-06-08
- Bouchet, P. (2013). Pomacea sinamarina (Bruguière, 1792). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=741103 on 2017-06-08
- Bouchet, P. (2013). Pomacea megastoma (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825). In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=741102 on 2017-06-08
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