Salinator

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Salinator
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Shell of Salinator sanchezi (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subcohort: Panpulmonata
Superfamily: Amphiboloidea
Family: Amphibolidae
Genus: Salinator
Hedley, 1900 [1]
Type species
Ampullaria fragilisLamarck, 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]

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Distribution

This genus occurs in Australia and South East Asia.

Species

Species within the genus Salinator include:

Taxa inquirenda
Synonyms

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]

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References

  1. Hedley C. (1900). Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales25: 511.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Golding R. E., Ponder W. F. & Byrne M. (2007). "Taxonomy and anatomy of Amphiboloidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Archaeopulmonata)". Zootaxa 1476: 1-50. abstract.
  3. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Salinator Hedley, 1900. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456510 on 2022-04-30