Pomacea quinindensis

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Correoso, M. |date=2016 |title=Pomacea quinindensis |volume=2016 |page=e.T189606A65493893 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T189606A65493893.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| taxon = Pomacea quinindensis

| authority = (K. Miller, 1879)

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Pomacea quinindensis is a South American species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.{{cite WoRMS |author=Bouchet, P. |year=2013 |title=Pomacea quinindensis (K. Miller, 1879) |id=741071 |access-date=27 March 2014}}

Distribution

P. quinindensis is endemic to Ecuador. It is currently known from only a few specimens collected from the Rio Quinindé.{{cite journal| author=Cowie R.H.| author2=Thiengo S.C.| name-list-style=amp | year=2003| title=The apple snails of the Americas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Asolene, Felipponea, Marisa, Pomacea, Pomella): A nomenclatural and type catalog| journal= Malacologia| volume=45| number=1| pages=41–100| url=https://archive.org/stream/cbarchive_126210_theapplesnailsoftheamericasmol1962/theapplesnailsoftheamericasmol1962#page/n15/mode/2up/| access-date=27 March 2014}}

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