Pomacea

Pomacea is a genus of freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails. The genus is native to the Americas; most species in this genus are restricted to South America.

in the aquarium trade these snails are sometimes called Pomacea or incorrectly Ampullarius, and in English as "[color] mystery snail" or "apple snail".

Some species have been introduced outside their native range and are considered invasive because of their voracious appetite for plants. Because of this, imports involving this genus are restricted in some regions (including the United States) and are entirely banned in others (including the EU).[2]

Contents 1 Species 2 As invasive species 3 References 4 External links

Species
Species in the genus Pomacea include:

subgenus Effusa Jousseaume, 1889 Pomacea baeri (Dautzenberg, 1902)[3] Pomacea glauca (Linné, 1758)[4] Pomacea cumingi (Reeve, 1843)[4] Pomacea quinindensis (K. Miller, 1879)[3]

subgenus Pomacea Perry, 1810 Pomacea aldersoni (Pain, 1946)[3] Pomacea aurostoma (Lea, 1856)[3] Pomacea bridgesii (Reeve, 1856)[4] Pomacea camena (Pain, 1949)[3] Pomacea canaliculata (Lamarck, 1819)[4] Pomacea catamarcensis (Sowerby, 1874)[4] Pomacea columellaris (Gould, 1848)[4] Pomacea cousini (Jousseaume, 1877)[3] Pomacea cyclostoma (Spix, 1827)[4] Pomacea decussata (Moricand)[4] Pomacea diffusa Blume, 1957[4] Pomacea dolioides (Reeve, 1856)[4] Pomacea eximia (Dunker, 1853)[3] Pomacea falconensis Pain & Arias, 1958[5] Pomacea flagellata (Say, 1827)[4] Pomacea hanleyi (Reeve, 1856)[4] Pomacea haustrum (Reeve, 1856)[4] Pomacea hollingsworthi (Pain, 1946)[3] Pomacea maculata Perry, 1810 - synonyms: Ampullaria gigas Spix, 1827; Pomacea insularum (D'Orbigny, 1839)[4][6] Pomacea lineata (Spix, 1827)[4] Pomacea paludosa (Say, 1829)[4] Pomacea papyracea (Spix, 1827)[4] Pomacea pealiana (Lea, 1838)[3] Pomacea poeyana (Pilsbry, 1927)[7] Pomacea reyrei (Cousin, 1887)[3] Pomacea scalaris (D'Orbigny, 1835)[4] Pomacea urceus (Müller, 1774)[4] Pomacea vexillum (Reeve, 1856)[3] Pomacea zischkai (Blume & Pain, 1952)[3]

As invasive species
Because of the potential to destroy aquatic and marsh vegetation in the wild, the European Union has banned all imports of snails from the Ampullariidae family, which includes the Pomacea genus.[2]