Nitor

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Nitor
Rainforest Snail Main Creek Dungog.JPG
Nitor medioximus , a rainforest snail, near Dungog, in Australia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helicarionidae
Genus: Nitor
Gude, 1911 [1]

Nitor is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Helicarionidae.

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Species

Species within the genus Nitor include:

References

  1. 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 London9: 269-273. page 270.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Names List for Nitor Gude, 1911". Australian Biological Resources Study. Australian Faunal Directory. Last updated 26 July 2010, accessed 7 January 2011.