| Nitor | |
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| Nitor medioximus, a rainforest snail, near Dungog, in Australia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Eythyneura |
| Superfamily: | Helicarionoidea |
| Family: | Helicarionidae |
| Subfamily: | Helicarioninae |
| Genus: | Nitor Gude, 1911 |
Nitor is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Helicarionidae.
Species
Species within the genus Nitor include:
- Nitor circumcincta
- Nitor helmsianus Iredale, 1941
- Nitor medioximus Iredale, 1941
- Nitor moretonensis - Moreton land snail
- Nitor pudibunda (Cox, 1868)
- Nitor subrugata (Reeve, 1852)
- Nitor wiangariensis Hyman, 2007 - Wiangarie Forest Glass Snail
References
- 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.
- ^ "Names List for Nitor Gude, 1911". Australian Biological Resources Study. Australian Faunal Directory. Last updated 26 July 2010, accessed 7 January 2011.
External links
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