| Salinator | |
|---|---|
| Shell of Salinator sanchezi (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subcohort: | Panpulmonata |
| Superfamily: | Amphiboloidea |
| Family: | Amphibolidae |
| Genus: | Salinator Hedley, 1900 |
| Type species | |
| Ampullaria fragilis Lamarck, 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.
This genus occurs in Australia and South East Asia.
Species within the genus Salinator include:
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.