- Nitor
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Nitor Nitor medioximus, a rainforest snail, near Dungog, in Australia Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Heterobranchia clade Eythyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Sigmurethra
clade limacoid cladeSuperfamily: Helicarionoidea Family: Helicarionidae Subfamily: Helicarioninae[1] Genus: Nitor
Gude, 1911[2]Nitor is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Helicarionidae.
Species
Species within the genus Nitor include:
- Nitor circumcincta [1]
- Nitor medioximus Iredale, 1941[3]
- Nitor moretonensis - Moreton land snail[citation needed]
- Nitor pudibunda (Cox, 1868)[3]
- Nitor subrugata (Reeve, 1852)[3]
- Nitor wiangariensis Hyman, 2007[3] - Wiangarie Forest Glass Snail
References
- ^ Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst.
- ^ Gude G. K. (1911). "Note on some preoccupied molluscan generic names and proposed new genera of the family Zonitidae". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 9: 269-273. page 270.
- ^ a b c d "Names List for Nitor Gude, 1911". Australian Biological Resources Study. Australian Faunal Directory. Last updated 26 July 2010, accessed 7 January 2011.
External links
- Nitor at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website.
- http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/Nitor
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