Salinator fragilis | |
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Salinator fragilis shells | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Family: | Amphibolidae |
Genus: | Salinator |
Species: | S. fragilis
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Binomial name | |
Salinator fragilis (Lamarck, 1822)
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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]
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]
This snail lives in salt-marshes, estuaries and mangrove ecosystems.[1]
This species feeds on detritus.[2]