Pomacea canaliculata

TaxID: 400727

Basic Information

Pomacea canaliculata

Channeled Applesnail

Pomacea canaliculata, commonly known as the golden apple snail or the channeled apple snail, is a species of large freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails. South American in origin, this species is considered to be in the top 100 of the "World's Worst Invasive Alien Species". It is also ranked as the 40th worst alien species in Europe and the worst alien species of gastropod in Europe.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Mollusca

Gastropoda

Architaenioglossa

Ampullariidae

Pomacea

canaliculata

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Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Phil Liff-Grieff@BY-NC-SA
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(c) Anthony Karani@BY-NC
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Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (27 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

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Quarantine Status (34 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Australia Quarantine pests —
Austria Emergency measures 2012
Belgium Emergency measures 2012
Bulgaria Emergency measures 2012
Cambodia Quarantine pests —
Cyprus Emergency measures 2012
Czechia Emergency measures 2012
Germany Emergency measures 2012
Denmark Emergency measures 2012
EPPO A1 Absent —
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Distribution (50 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

44
Present
6
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Argentina Present —
Austria Present —
Bangladesh Absent —
Bermuda Present —
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Present —
Brazil Present
Cambodia Present —
Chile Present —
China Present —
Colombia Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature