Salinator fragilis is a species of small, air-breathing land snail with an operculum, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Amphibolidae. The species is sometimes referred to as the fragile air breather.[1] It was originally described as being in the genus Ampullaria, but was split off into the genus Salinator in 1900 by Charles Hedley.[2]
| Salinator fragilis | |
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| Salinator fragilis shells | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Family: | Amphibolidae |
| Genus: | Salinator |
| Species: | S. fragilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Salinator fragilis (Lamarck, 1822) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Ampullaria fragilis Lamarck, 1822 | |
Distribution
editHabitat
editThis snail lives in salt-marshes, estuaries and mangrove ecosystems.[1]
Diet
editReferences
edit- 1 2 Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority
- 1 2 Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database Archived 2006-09-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- ↑ G. Kantharajan, P.K. Pandey, P. Krishnan, V. Deepak Samuel, V.S. Bharti, R. Purvaja, Molluscan diversity in the mangrove ecosystem of Mumbai, west coast of India, In Regional Studies in Marine Science, Volume 14, 2017, Pages 102-111, ISSN 2352-4855, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2017.06.002.
- Golding R.E., Ponder W.F. & Byrne M. 2007. Taxonomy and anatomy of Amphiboloidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Archaeopulmonata). Zootaxa 1476: 1-50 page(s): 10