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Salinator fragilis

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Salinator fragilis
Salinator fragilis shells
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
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

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This species lives on the coast of Australia and also in Melanesia.[3] The species also reported from mangrove ecosystems of India i.e. Sunderbans, Kakinada bay and Mumbai.[4]

Habitat

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

Diet

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This species feeds on detritus.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority
  2. ^ a b Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database Archived 2006-09-06 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  4. ^ 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