Pomatiopsis lapidaria

Pomatiopsis lapidaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Pomatiopsidae
Subfamily: Pomatiopsinae
Genus: Pomatiopsis
Species: P. lapidaria
Binomial name
Pomatiopsis lapidaria
(Say, 1817)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Cyclostoma lapidaria Say, 1817
  • Pomatiopsis hinkleyi Pilsbry, 1896[3]
  • Pomatiopsis praelonga Brooks & MacMillan, 1940
  • Pomatiopsis scalaris F. C. Baker, 1927[4]

Pomatiopsis lapidaria is an amphibious species of snail with gills and an operculum, a gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.

Pomatiopsis lapidaria is the type species of the genus Pomatiopsis.[2]

Distribution

The distribution of Pomatiopsis lapidaria includes the USA.

The type locality was not recorded.[2]

Ecology

Pomatiopsis lapidaria is amphibious: it lives in damp or wet habitats on marshy ground and in soil that is periodically flooded.[2]

Dundee (1957) described the life history and the anatomy of Pomatiopsis lapidaria in detail.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Say T. (1817). "Description of Seven Species of American Fresh Water and Land Shells, not Noticed in the Systems". Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1(1): 13-16.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Davis G. M. (1979). "The origin and evolution of the gastropod family Pomatiopsidae, with emphasis on the Mekong river Triculinae". Academy of natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monograph 20: 1-120. ISBN 978-1-4223-1926-0. at Google Books.
  3. ↑ Pilsbry H. A. (1896). "A New Species of Pomatiopsis". The Nautilus 10(4): 37-38.
  4. ↑ Baker F. C. (1927). "Descriptions of new forms of Pleistocene land mollusks from Illinois with remarks on other species". The Nautilus 40(4): 114-120. page 120.
  5. ↑ Dundee D. S. (1957). "Aspects of the biology of Pomatiopsis lapidaria (Say) (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)". Miscellaneous Publications 100: 65 pp., 14 plates, 1 figure, 2 maps, 8 tables. PDF.
  • Walker B. (1918). "A synopsis of the classification of the freshwater Mollusca of North America, north of Mexico, and a catalogue of the more recently described species, with notes". Miscellaneous Publications 6: 214 pp., 1 plate, 233 figures. [page 34.


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