Pomacea occulta is a species of freshwater snail in the family Ampullariidae.[1] Previously misidentified as the cryptically similar Pomacea maculata, P. occulta was differentiated by Yang et al. in 2019 using DNA barcoding and molecular systematics.[2]
| Pomacea occulta | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Superfamily: | Ampullarioidea |
| Family: | Ampullariidae |
| Subfamily: | Pomaceinae |
| Genus: | Pomacea |
| Species: | P. occulta
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| Binomial name | |
| Pomacea occulta Q.-Q. Yang & X.-P. Yu, 2019
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Distribution
editThis species has only been identified from invasive populations in China, so its native region is not known, but would be somewhere in South America.[2]
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. "Molluscabase - Pomacea occulta Q.-Q. Yang & X.-P. Yu, 2019". MolluscaBase. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
{{cite web}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ^ a b Yang, Qian-Qian; Yu, Xiao-Ping (2019-07-02). "A New Species of Apple Snail in the Genus Pomacea (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Ampullariidae)". Zoological Studies. 58 (58): e13. doi:10.6620/ZS.2019.58-13. ISSN 1021-5506. PMC 6759870. PMID 31966314.
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