''Auriculastra'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
s,
terrestrial
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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 ...
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 ...
mollusk
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s in the family
Ellobiidae
Ellobiidae, common name the hollow-shelled snails, is a family of small air-breathing land, marine, and brackish snails; pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Eupulmonata.Bouchet, P. (2012). Ellobiidae. Accessed through: World Register of M ...
, the
salt marsh
A salt marsh, saltmarsh or salting, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides. I ...
snails.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Auriculastra Martens, 1880. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=574835 on 2020-06-02]
Species
Species in the genus ''Auriculastra'' include:
* ''
Auriculastra acuta''
Connolly, 1922
* ''
Auriculastra aquensis''
(Tournouër, 1872) †
* ''
Auriculastra badeniensis''
Kókay, 2006 †
* ''
Auriculastra biplicata''
(Grateloup, 1828) †
* ''
Auriculastra brachyspira''
(Möllendorff, 1894)
* ''
Auriculastra dumasi''
(Cossmann, 1895) †
* ''
Auriculastra duplicata
''Auriculastra duplicata'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial animal, terrestrial gastropod mollusc in the family Ellobiidae, the salt marsh snails.
Distribution
This species occurs in Japan in Honshū, Kyūshū and Shikok ...
''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
* ''
Auriculastra gassiesi''
(Morelet, 1882)
* ''
Auriculastra hyalina''
(Morelet, 1883)
* ''
Auriculastra incrassata''
(H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854)
* ''
Auriculastra oparica''
(H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854)
* ''
Auriculastra ovata''
(Briart & Cornet, 1887) †
* ''
Auriculastra radiolata''
(Morelet, 1860)
* ''
Auriculastra saccata''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
* ''
Auriculastra semiplicata''
(H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854)
* ''
Auriculastra siamensis''
(Brandt, 1974)
* ''
Auriculastra subula''
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Auriculastra catonis''
(Melvill & Ponsonby, 1899): synonym of ''Auriculastra radiolata''
(Morelet, 1860) (junior synonym)
* ''Auriculastra nana''
Haas, 1950: synonym of ''
Microtralia ovulum
''Microtralia ovulum'' is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae, the salt marsh snails.
Shell description
The shell is minute, smooth, yellowish white, with about five whorls besi ...
''
(Pfeiffer, 1840)
* ''Auriculastra nevillei''
(Morelet, 1882): synonym of ''Auriculastra radiolata''
(Morelet, 1860) (junior synonym)
References
Nomenclator Zoologicus info* Smith B.J. (1992). Non-marine Mollusca. In: Houston W.W.K. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia, volume 8. xii + 405 pp.
* Kókay, J. (2006). Nonmarine mollusc fauna from the Lower and Middle Miocene, Bakony Mts., W Hungary. Geologica Hungarica, Series Palaeontologica. 56, 1-196.
External links
Martens E. von. (1880). Mollusken. Pp. 179-353, pl. 19-22 In K. Moebius, F. Richters & E. von Martens, Beiträge zur Meeresfauna der Insel Mauritius und der Seychellen. Berlin: GutmannQuadras, J. F.; Möllendorff, O. F. von. (1895). Diagnoses specierum novarum ex insulis Philippinis. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 27: 73–88, 105–121, 137–149
Ellobiidae
Gastropod genera
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