Habitat and Location
Daedalochila leporina
(Gould, 1848) is found mostly on the Gulf Coast,
hence its common name the Gulf Coast Liptooth. It is found in
states such as Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Illinois, Indiana,
Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas (Nekola,
2010). Gastropods
in this area, to be more general, like more of an acidic soil (PH<4)
and the calcium concentration to be high (Ca<100 ppm)
(Nekola,
2010). The
high concentration of calcium is in part because of the snails to
form their shells which are made of calcium, but also for egg
production because the eggs also are made of calcium
(Nekola, 2010). The perfect types of places for these organisms
are in lime-rich habitats such as calcium carbonate bedrock
outcrops, fens, chalk grasslands, rich uplands and lowland
forests (Nekola, 2010). Also in
the family Polygyridae, bogs and heath lands are perfect for the
land snails because they are believed to be primarily mycophagous,
meaning they eat fungi, making them attracted to the log mold found
in these places for food (Blinn, 1963).
In the bigger picture, mollusks occupy a great range of habitats
from the tropics to the poles (Hickman et
al.,
2009). gastropods were the first to invade land and may have
been one of the first animals to do so with gastropod meaning
terrestrial and air-breathing (Hickman et
al., 2009).