Amphibola crenata

Mud-flat snail
A shell of Amphibola crenata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Amphibolidae
Genus: Amphibola
Schumacher, 1817[1]
Species:
A. crenata
Binomial name
Amphibola crenata
(Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[2]
  • Amphibola australis Schumacher, 1817
  • Amphibola avellana (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Amphibola crenata (Martyn, 1786) (non-binomial)
  • Amphibola obvoluta Jonas, 1846

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 sea, not entirely terrestrial and not entirely marine.[2] This is not a true land snail, but it is also not a true sea snail. Unlike almost all other snails that have opercula, this species breathes air. It is common in New Zealand.[3]

  1. ^ Schumacher H. C. F. (1817). Essai Vers test. 58: 190.
  2. ^ a b Rosenberg, G. (2011). Amphibola crenata (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=590660 on 2012-04-06
  3. ^ Powell A. W. B. (1979). William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN 0-00-216906-1