Asolene
Encyclopedia
Asolene is a genus
of freshwater snail
s with an operculum
, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae
, the apple snails.
The distribution of the genus Asolene includes South America.
Subgenus Asolene
Subgenus Pomella Gray, 1847
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of freshwater snail
Freshwater snail
A freshwater snail is one kind of freshwater mollusc, the other kind being freshwater clams and mussels, i.e. freshwater bivalves. Specifically a freshwater snail is a gastropod that lives in a watery non-marine habitat. The majority of freshwater gastropods have a shell, with very few exceptions....
s with an operculum
Operculum (gastropod)
The operculum, meaning little lid, is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure which exists in many groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails...
, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae
Ampullariidae
Ampullariidae, common name the apple snails, is a family of large freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks with a gill and an operculum...
, the apple snails.
The distribution of the genus Asolene includes South America.
Species
There are seven species within the genus Asolene:Subgenus Asolene
- Asolene petiti (Crosse, 1891)
- Asolene platae (Maton, 1809) - type species
- Asolene pulchella (Anton, 1839)
- Asolene spixi (d'Orbigny, 1837)
Subgenus Pomella Gray, 1847
- Asolene americana (v. Ihering, 1919)
- Asolene fairchildy (Clench, 1933)
- Asolene megastoma (Sowerby, 1825)