Salinator

Salinator
Shell of Salinator sanchezi (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this 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.

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.

References

  1. ↑ Hedley C. (1900). Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales 25: 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