Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Rissooidea Subfamily Pomatiopsinae Genus Pomatiopsis | Class Gastropoda Family Pomatiopsidae Phylum Mollusca Rank Species | |
Similar Pomatiopsidae, Gastrocopta contracta, Pleurocera acuta, Haplotrema concavum, Stenotrema | ||
Pomatiopsis lapidaria say 1817 slender walker snail
Pomatiopsis lapidaria is an amphibious species of snail with gills and an operculum, a gastropod mollusk in the family Pomatiopsidae.
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- Pomatiopsis lapidaria say 1817 slender walker snail
- Pomatiopsis lapidaria say 1817 slender walker snail juvenile
- Distribution
- Ecology
- References
Pomatiopsis lapidaria is the type species of the genus Pomatiopsis.
Pomatiopsis lapidaria say 1817 slender walker snail juvenile
Distribution
The distribution of Pomatiopsis lapidaria includes the USA.
The type locality was not recorded.
Ecology
Pomatiopsis lapidaria is amphibious: it lives in damp or wet habitats on marshy ground and in soil that is periodically flooded.
Dundee (1957) described the life history and the anatomy of Pomatiopsis lapidaria in detail.
References
Pomatiopsis lapidaria Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA