Biology:Pomatiopsis lapidaria
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Short description: Species of gastropod
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| Subfamily: | Pomatiopsinae
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| Species: | P. lapidaria
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| Pomatiopsis lapidaria (Say, 1817)[1]
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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]
Ecology
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]
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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 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.
External links
- 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q3139795 entry
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