Salinator fragilis

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Salinator fragilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Pulmonata
Family: Amphibolidae
Genus: Salinator
Species: S. fragilis
Binomial name
Salinator 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 Hedley.[2]

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[edit] Distribution

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

[edit] Habitat

This species lives in salt-marshes and estuaries.[4]

[edit] Diet

This species feeds on detritus[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority
  2. ^ Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database
  3. ^ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  4. ^ Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority
  5. ^ Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database


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