Salinator fragilis

Taxobox
name = "Salinator fragilis"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Pulmonata
familia = Amphibolidae
genus = "Salinator"
species = "S. fragilis"
binomial = "Salinator fragilis"
binomial_authority = (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. [ [http://www.northern.cma.nsw.gov.au/pdf/estuarinebugguide1_mangrovespage2.pdf Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority] ] It was originally described as being in the genus "Ampullaria", but was split off into the genus "Salinator" in 1900 by Hedley. [ [http://data.acnatsci.org/obis/search.php/14 Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database] ]

Distribution

This species lives on the coast of Australia and also in Melanesia. [ [http://data.gbif.org/species/13272139/ Global Biodiversity Information Facility] ]

Habitat

This species lives in salt-marshes and estuaries. [ [http://www.northern.cma.nsw.gov.au/pdf/estuarinebugguide1_mangrovespage2.pdf Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority] ]

Diet

This species feeds on detritus [ [http://data.acnatsci.org/obis/search.php/14 Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database] ]

References