Salinator fragilis

Salinator fragilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
Superfamily: Amphiboloidea
Family: Amphibolidae
Genus: Salinator
Species: S. fragilis
Binomial name
Salinator fragilis
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms

Ampullaria fragilis Lamarck, 1822

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]

Distribution

This species lives on the coast of Australia and also in Melanesia.[3]

Habitat

This snail lives in salt-marshes and estuaries.[1]

Diet

This species feeds on detritus.[2]

References

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