Nitor
| Nitor | |
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| Nitor medioximus, a rainforest snail, near Dungog, in Australia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Helicarionidae |
| Genus: | Nitor Gude, 1911[1] |
Nitor is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Helicarionidae.
Species
[edit]Species within the genus Nitor include:
- Nitor circumcincta [1]
- Nitor helmsianus Iredale, 1941
- Nitor medioximus Iredale, 1941[2]
- Nitor moretonensis - Moreton land snail[citation needed]
- Nitor pudibunda (Cox, 1868)[2]
- Nitor subrugata (Reeve, 1852)[2]
- Nitor wiangariensis Hyman, 2007[2] - Wiangarie Forest Glass Snail
References
[edit]- ^ 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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