Pomacea hollingsworthi 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]
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Subgenus: | Pomacea
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Species: | P. hollingsworthi
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Pomacea hollingsworthi (Pain, 1946)
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The native distribution of P. hollingsworthi is Colombia. It was described from fifteen specimens, collected in a swiftly flowing stream with a rocky bed near Bogota in February 1939.[2][3]