Salinator

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Salinator
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Pulmonata
Family: Amphibolidae
Genus: Salinator
Hedley, 1900
Species

See text.

Salinator is a genus of small, air-breathing terrestrial snails with an operculum, pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Amphibolidae.

[edit] Distribution

Australia and South East Asia.

[edit] Species within the genus Salinator

Golding, Ponder, and Byrne have suggested, however, that Salinator takii be moved into the newly erected genus Lactiforis, and that Salinator solida be moved into the newly erected genus Phallomedusa in a separate family called Phallomedusidae.

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