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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaMolluscaGastropodaStylommatophoraPolygyridaeLobosculum

Tiny Liptooth
Lobosculum pustuloides (Bland, 1858)

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Order Stylommatophora
Family Polygyridae
Genus Lobosculum
Species Lobosculum pustuloides (Bland, 1858)

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Trogloxene
Realm
Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from one county in Alabama.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama

Counties

Alabama
Jackson

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G4 Apparently Secure

G1G2G3G4▲G5

National ranks

United States
N4 Apparently Secure

Subnational ranks

Florida
SNR Unranked
Tennessee
S4 Apparently Secure
Virginia
SU Unrankable
North Carolina
S4 Apparently Secure
Georgia
SNR Unranked
Mississippi
SNR Unranked
South Carolina
SNR Unranked
Kentucky
S2 Imperiled
Maryland
SNR Unranked
Alabama
SNR Unranked

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

  • Godwin, J.C. 2008. Biological inventory of the cave and karst systems of The Nature Conservancy's Sharp-Bingham Mountain Preserve. Alabama Natural Heritage Program, Auburn, Alabama, USA. 40 pp.

How to cite this account

Lobosculum pustuloides (Bland, 1858). Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-2598. https://cavebiology.org/species/lobosculum-pustuloides/ (accessed 7 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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