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Channeled Apple Snail
H. Zell, CC BY-SA 4.0, via iNaturalist

Snails & slugs

Channeled Apple Snail

Pomacea canaliculata (Lamarck, 1822)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishChanneled Apple Snail
Dutch—
SpanishCaracol manzana
Chinese小管福寿螺
Scientific namePomacea canaliculata (Lamarck, 1822)

About this species

Pomacea canaliculata, commonly known as the golden apple snail or the channeled apple snail, is a species of large freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

South American in origin, this species is considered to be in the top 100 of the "World's Worst Invasive Alien Species". It is also ranked as the 40th worst alien species in Europe and the worst alien species of gastropod in Europe.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumMollusca
ClassGastropoda
OrderArchitaenioglossa
FamilyAmpullariidae
GenusPomacea

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