Salinator fragilis explained

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.^[1] It was originally described as being in the genus Ampullaria, but was split off into the genus Salinator in 1900 by Charles Hedley.^[2]

Distribution

This species lives on the coast of Australia and also in Melanesia.^[3] The species also reported from mangrove ecosystems of India i.e. Sunderbans, Kakinada bay and Mumbai.^[4]

Habitat

This snail lives in salt-marshes, estuaries and mangrove ecosystems.^[1]

Diet

This species feeds on detritus.^[2]

References

• Golding R.E., Ponder W.F. & Byrne M. 2007. Taxonomy and anatomy of Amphiboloidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Archaeopulmonata). Zootaxa 1476: 1-50 page(s): 10

Notes and References

1. http://www.northern.cma.nsw.gov.au/pdf/estuarinebugguide1_mangrovespage2.pdf Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority
2. http://data.acnatsci.org/obis/search.php/14 Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database
3. http://data.gbif.org/species/13272139/ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
4. G. Kantharajan, P.K. Pandey, P. Krishnan, V. Deepak Samuel, V.S. Bharti, R. Purvaja, Molluscan diversity in the mangrove ecosystem of Mumbai, west coast of India, In Regional Studies in Marine Science, Volume 14, 2017, Pages 102-111, ISSN 2352-4855, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2017.06.002.