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Asolene

Asolene is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

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Asolene
A drawing of an apertural view of the shell of Asolene petiti
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Ampullariidae
Subfamily: Pomaceinae
Genus: Asolene
d'Orbigny, 1838
Diversity1
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.2

Species

There were recognized seven species within the genus Asolene as of 2011, when Asolene included subgenus Pomella Gray, 1847.32

There are recognized 71 species within the genus Asolene:

synonyms:

  • Asolene americana (v. Ihering, 1919)2 is a synonym of ...
  • Asolene fairchildi (Clench, 1933)2 is a synonym of Pomacea sinamarina (Bruguière, 1792)8
  • Asolene megastoma (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)2 is a synonym of Pomacea megastoma (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)9
References

References

  1. 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
  2. "Asolene". The apple snail website, Accessed 16 May 2011.
  3. 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.
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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