| Lobosculum | |
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| Three views of a shell of Lobosculum pustula | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Polygyridae |
| Subfamily: | Polygyrinae |
| Genus: | Lobosculum Pilsbry, 1930 |
| Species | |
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Lobosculum is a genus (or a subgenus under Polygyra ) of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Polygyridae.
These are among the smallest snails in the Polygyridae, with shell diameters of about 4 to 6 mm (approximately 1/5 inch). The shells of this species usually have a velvety surface, as a consequence of numerous hair-like extensions of the surface covering of the shell, the periostracum.
The known distribution of this species is limited to the United States: along the Gulf of Mexico from Texas to Florida, as well as Georgia, and the Mississippi valley from Arkansas to Indiana. [1]
This genus includes the following species and subspecies: [1] [2] [3] [4]
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