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Apple Snail
Luis Ruiz Berti, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Snails & slugs

Apple Snail

Pomacea glauca (Linnaeus, 1758)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishApple Snail
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Spanish—
Chinese—
Scientific namePomacea glauca (Linnaeus, 1758)

About this species

Pomacea glauca is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

The species varies greatly in color, shape and size, growing to around 70 mm. Its colors include a pale yellow with brown spiral bands to darker shades of brown or purple with darker bands.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumMollusca
ClassGastropoda
OrderArchitaenioglossa
FamilyAmpullariidae
GenusPomacea

In Suriname

81Records in Suriname
1903First record
2016Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Sipaliwini19
  • Para2
  • Paramaribo2
  • Nickerie1

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

Records by month

All years combined.

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