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] | |
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
- ↑ 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.
- 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
External links
- "Pomatiopsis lapidaria". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
- 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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