Asolene spixii

Asolene spixii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Family: Ampullariidae
Genus: Asolene
Species:
A. spixii
Binomial name
Asolene spixii
(d'Orbigny, 1838)
Synonyms[1]

Ampullaria spixii d'Orbigny, 1838 (original combination)
Ampullaria zonata d'Orbigny, 1835 (invalid: junior homonym of Ampullaria zonata Spix, 1827; A. spixii is a replacement name)

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

The specific name spixii is in honour of German biologist Johann Baptist von Spix.

It is often misspelled as Asolene spixii.

It can eat animals of the genus Hydra.

Distribution

Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.

References

  1. ↑ 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 2017-11-27


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