Salinator fragilis

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]

Salinator fragilis
Salinator fragilis shells
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Family:	Amphibolidae
Genus:	Salinator
Species:	S. fragilis
Binomial name
Salinator fragilis (Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms
Ampullaria fragilis Lamarck, 1822

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]