Salinator | |
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Shell of Salinator sanchezi (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Subcohort: | Panpulmonata |
Superfamily: | Amphiboloidea |
Family: | Amphibolidae |
Genus: |
Salinator Hedley, 1900 [1] |
Type species | |
Ampullaria fragilis Lamarck, 1822
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Salinator is a genus of small, air-breathing, terrestrial or semi- marine snails with an operculum, pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Salinatorinae of the family Amphibolidae. [2] [3]
This genus occurs in Australia and South East Asia.
Species within the genus Salinator include:
In 2007, Golding, Ponder, and Byrne suggested that Salinator takii be moved into the newly erected genus Lactiforis, and that Salinator solidus be moved into the newly erected genus Phallomedusa, in a separate family called Phallomedusidae. [2]
Salinator | |
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Shell of Salinator sanchezi (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Subcohort: | Panpulmonata |
Superfamily: | Amphiboloidea |
Family: | Amphibolidae |
Genus: |
Salinator Hedley, 1900 [1] |
Type species | |
Ampullaria fragilis Lamarck, 1822
|
Salinator is a genus of small, air-breathing, terrestrial or semi- marine snails with an operculum, pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Salinatorinae of the family Amphibolidae. [2] [3]
This genus occurs in Australia and South East Asia.
Species within the genus Salinator include:
In 2007, Golding, Ponder, and Byrne suggested that Salinator takii be moved into the newly erected genus Lactiforis, and that Salinator solidus be moved into the newly erected genus Phallomedusa, in a separate family called Phallomedusidae. [2]