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^[4]
Cyclostoma lapidaria Say, 1817 Pomatiopsis hinkleyi Pilsbry, 1896^[2] Pomatiopsis praelonga Brooks & MacMillan, 1940 Pomatiopsis scalaris F. C. Baker, 1927^[3]

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.^[4]

Distribution

The distribution of Pomatiopsis lapidaria includes the USA.

The type locality was not recorded.^[4]

Pomatiopsis lapidaria is amphibious: it lives in damp or wet habitats on marshy ground and in soil that is periodically flooded.^[4]

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

^ 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.
^ Pilsbry H. A. (1896). "A New Species of Pomatiopsis". The Nautilus 10(4): 37-38.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d 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.
^ 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.

Pomatiopsis lapidaria at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website.
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.