Pomacea zischkai

Pomacea zischkai is a South American species of freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.^[1]

Pomacea zischkai
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Family:	Ampullariidae
Genus:	Pomacea
Species:	P. zischkai
Binomial name
Pomacea zischkai (Blume & Pain, 1952)

Etymology

P. zischkai is named after Bolivian biologist Rodolfo Zischka, who discovered it.^[2]

Distribution

P. zischkai is endemic to Bolivia. It is found in the Chapare region, at an altitude of 400 m.^[3]