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Pomatiopsis lapidaria | |
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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]
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]