Colored engraving of a live Pomacea paludosa made by Helen Lawson († 1854) and published in 1845 A monograph of the freshwater univalve Mollusca of the United States: including notices of species in other parts of North America by Samuel Stehman Haldeman.
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:
Ampullarioidea
Family:
Ampullariidae
Genus:
Pomacea
Subgenus:
Pomacea
Species:
P. paludosa
Binomial name
Pomacea paludosa
(Say, 1829)
Synonyms[2]
Ampullaria caliginosa Reeve, 1856
Ampullaria depressa Say, 1824 (invalid: junior homonym of Ampullaria depressa Lamarck, 1804; A. paludosa is a replacement name)
Pomacea paludosa, common name the Florida applesnail, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
^Cordeiro, J. & Perez, K. (2011). "Pomacea paludosa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011. IUCN: e.T189339A8718219. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T189339A8718219.en. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
Pomaceapaludosa, common name the Florida applesnail, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae...
species. In Florida, in particular, Pomacea maculata is much larger and more fecund than the native Pomaceapaludosa (that produces 20–30 eggs). Recent...
aquatic pet.[citation needed] Occasionally, the Florida apple snail (Pomaceapaludosa) is found in the aquarium trade and these are often collected in the...
overlaps in size with the Pomaceapaludosa. The egg masses have an irregular honeycombed appearance, like those of Pomacea haustrum, but are smaller and...
similar in habit and appearance to the indigenous Florida apple snail (Pomaceapaludosa), but it has few predators in the Everglades. It eats macrophytes on...
consists almost exclusively of apple snails, especially the species Pomaceapaludosa in Florida, and species of the genus Marisa. Snail kites have been...
Snyder NF, Snyder HA (1971-01-01). "Defenses of the Florida Apple Snail PomaceaPaludosa". Behaviour. 40 (3–4): 175–214. doi:10.1163/156853971X00384. ISSN 0005-7959...
(1787–1834), father of American entomology, University of Evansville Pomaceapaludosa (Say, 1829) Paintings of The Cliffs, the Say family home on the Schuylkill...
†Polystira tampensis †Polystira tenagos – type locality for species Pomacea †Pomaceapaludosa Pomatodelphis †Pomatodelphis bobengi – type locality for species...
& Fernandez J. A. (1997). "Relationships of the Prosobranch snails Pomaceapaludosa, Tarebia granifera and Melanoides tuberculata with the abiotic environment...
species weakens the entire ecosystem. For example, Florida apple snails (Pomaceapaludosa) are an amphibious fresh water mollusk. They have a single gill and...
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