''Amphibola'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of small, air-breathing

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...

or semi- marine

snail A snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gas ...

s with an operculum,

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

s in the

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Amphibolidae Amphibolidae is a family of air-breathing snails with opercula, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. This family of pulmonate gastropods, for breathe air, but also have opercula and at least some species go through a free-swimming velig ...

.Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2012). Amphibola. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527757 on 2012-05-10

Species

Species within the genus ''Amphibola'' include: * '' Amphibola africana'' (E. A. Smith, 1904) * ''

Amphibola crenata ''Amphibola crenata'' (''tītiko'' in the Māori language or mud-flat snail in English) is a species of air-breathing snail with an operculum, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc which lives in a habitat that is intermediate between the land and the s ...

'' (Gmelin, 1791) ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Amphibola australis'' Schumacher, 1817: synonym of ''Amphibola crenata'' (Gmelin, 1791) * ''Amphibola avellana'' (Bruguière, 1789): synonym of ''Amphibola crenata'' (Gmelin, 1791) * ''Amphibola burmana'' Blanford, 1867: synonym of '' Salinator burmana'' (Blanford, 1867) * ''Amphibola crenata'' (Martyn, 1786): synonym of ''Amphibola crenata'' (Gmelin, 1791) * ''Amphibola obvoluta'' Jonas, 1846: synonym of ''Amphibola crenata'' (Gmelin, 1791) * ''Amphibola sanchezi'' Quadras & Möllendorf, 1894: synonym of '' Salinator sanchezi'' (Quadras & Möllendorf, 1894) * ''Amphibola solida'' Martens, 1878: synonym of ''

Phallomedusa solida ''Phallomedusa solida'' is a species of small, air-breathing land snail with an operculum, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Phallomedusidae.Golding R. E., Ponder W. F. & Byrne M. (2007). "Taxonomy and anatomy of Amphiboloidea (Gastro ...

'' (Martens, 1878) ;Species inquirenda: * ''Amphibola quadrasi'' Möllendorf, 1894

References

* Golding R.E., Ponder W.F. & Byrne M. 2007. ''Taxonomy and anatomy of Amphiboloidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Archaeopulmonata).'' Zootaxa 1476: 1-50 page(s): 6 {{Taxonbar, from=Q4748205 Amphibolidae