Asolene

Asolene is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

Asolene
A drawing of an apertural view of the shell of Asolene petiti
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Family:	Ampullariidae
Subfamily:	Pomaceinae
Genus:	Asolene d'Orbigny, 1838
Diversity[1]
7 species

The distribution of the genus Asolene includes South America.^[2]

Species

There were recognized seven species within the genus Asolene as of 2011, when Asolene included subgenus Pomella Gray, 1847.^[3][2]

There are recognized 7^[1] species within the genus Asolene:

• Asolene crassa (Swainson, 1823)^[4]
• Asolene granulosa (G. B. Sowerby III, 1894)^[5]
• Asolene meta (Ihering, 1915)^[6]
• Asolene petiti (Crosse, 1891)^[2]
• Asolene platae (Maton, 1809) - type species^[2]
• Asolene pulchella (Anton, 1839)^[2]
• Asolene spixii (d'Orbigny, 1837)^[2][7]

synonyms:

• Asolene americana (v. Ihering, 1919)^[2] is a synonym of ...^{[clarification needed]}
• Asolene fairchildi (Clench, 1933)^[2] is a synonym of Pomacea sinamarina (Bruguière, 1792)^[8]
• Asolene megastoma (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)^[2] is a synonym of Pomacea megastoma (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)^[9]