Nitor is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Helicarionidae.
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| Nitor medioximus, a rainforest snail, near Dungog, in Australia | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Eythyneura |
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| Genus: | Nitor |
Species
editSpecies within the genus Nitor include:
- Nitor circumcincta [1]
- Nitor helmsianus Iredale, 1941
- Nitor medioximus Iredale, 1941[3]
- Nitor moretonensis - Moreton land snail[citation needed]
- Nitor pudibunda (Cox, 1868)[3]
- Nitor subrugata (Reeve, 1852)[3]
- Nitor wiangariensis Hyman, 2007[3] - Wiangarie Forest Glass Snail
References
edit- ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ^ Gude G. K. (1911). "Note on some preoccupied molluscan generic names and proposed new genera of the family Zonitidae". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 9: 269-273. page 270.
- ^ a b c d "Names List for Nitor Gude, 1911". Australian Biological Resources Study. Australian Faunal Directory. Last updated 26 July 2010, accessed 7 January 2011.
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