Pomacea occulta

Pomacea occulta is a species of freshwater snail in the family Ampullariidae.^[2] Previously misidentified as the cryptically similar Pomacea maculata, P. occulta was differentiated by Yang and Yu in 2019 using DNA barcoding and molecular systematics.^[1]

Pomacea occulta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Ampullarioidea
Family:	Ampullariidae
Subfamily:	Pomaceinae
Genus:	Pomacea
Species:	P. occulta
Binomial name
Pomacea occulta Q.-Q. Yang & X.-P. Yu, 2019[1]

Distribution

This species has only been identified from invasive populations in China, so its native region is not known, but would be somewhere in South America.^[1]