Pomacea vexillum
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
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| status = DD
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = {{Cite journal | author = Pastorino, G. | author2 = Darrigan, G. | name-list-style = amp | title = Pomacea vexillum | journal = The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | volume = 2011 | page = e.T189525A8743877 | publisher = IUCN | date = 2011 | url = http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/189525/0 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T189525A8743877.en | access-date = 11 January 2018| doi-access = free }}
| taxon = Pomacea vexillum
| authority = (Reeve, 1856)
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Pomacea vexillum is a South American species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.
Taxonomic note
P. vexillum is considered a synonym of P. puncticulata by some authors.{{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/n37/mode/2up| access-date=28 March 2014}}
Distribution
P. vexillum is known from Venezuela{{cite book| author=Simone, L. R. L.|title=Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil| year=2006| publisher=FAPESP| location=São Paulo|isbn=85-906670-0-6}} and Guyana.{{cite web| url=http://clade.ansp.org/malacology/collections/search.php?submitbut=Search&name=Pomacea+vexillum| title=Pomacea vexillum| work=Malacology collection| publisher=Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia| access-date=28 March 2014}}
References
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External links
- {{cite web| url=http://ampullariidae.lifedesks.org/pages/128| title=Pomacea vexillum (Reeve, 1856)| publisher=LifeDesks: Ampullariidae| access-date=28 March 2014}}
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Category:Molluscs of South America
Category:Invertebrates of Venezuela
Category:Gastropods described in 1856
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