Salinator fragilis
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| Species: | S. fragilis
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| Salinator fragilis (Lamarck, 1822)
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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]
Habitat
This species lives in salt-marshes and estuaries.[1]
Diet
This species feeds on detritus.[2]