Auriculastra is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae, the salt marsh snails.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Ellobiida |
| Superfamily: | Ellobioidea |
| Family: | Ellobiidae |
| Genus: | Auriculastra Martens, 1880 |
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| Auriculastra subula Quoy & Gaimard, 1832
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Species
editSpecies in the genus Auriculastra include:
- Auriculastra acuta Connolly, 1922
- Auriculastra aquensis (Tournouër, 1872) †
- Auriculastra badeniensis Kókay, 2006 †
- Auriculastra biplicata (Grateloup, 1828) †
- Auriculastra brachyspira (Möllendorff, 1894)
- Auriculastra dumasi (Cossmann, 1895) †
- Auriculastra duplicata (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
- Auriculastra gassiesi (Morelet, 1882)
- Auriculastra hyalina (Morelet, 1883)
- Auriculastra incrassata (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854)
- Auriculastra oparica (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854)
- Auriculastra ovata (Briart & Cornet, 1887) †
- Auriculastra radiolata (Morelet, 1860)
- Auriculastra saccata (L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
- Auriculastra semiplicata (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854)
- Auriculastra siamensis (Brandt, 1974)
- Auriculastra subula (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Auriculastra catonis (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1899): synonym of Auriculastra radiolata (Morelet, 1860) (junior synonym)
- Auriculastra nana Haas, 1950: synonym of Microtralia ovulum (Pfeiffer, 1840)
- Auriculastra nevillei (Morelet, 1882): synonym of Auriculastra radiolata (Morelet, 1860) (junior synonym)
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Auriculastra Martens, 1880. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=574835 on 2020-06-02
- Nomenclator Zoologicus info
- Smith B.J. (1992). Non-marine Mollusca. In: Houston W.W.K. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia, volume 8. xii + 405 pp.
- Kókay, J. (2006). Nonmarine mollusc fauna from the Lower and Middle Miocene, Bakony Mts., W Hungary. Geologica Hungarica, Series Palaeontologica. 56, 1-196.
External links
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- Martens E. von. (1880). Mollusken. Pp. 179-353, pl. 19-22 In K. Moebius, F. Richters & E. von Martens, Beiträge zur Meeresfauna der Insel Mauritius und der Seychellen. Berlin: Gutmann
- Quadras, J. F.; Möllendorff, O. F. von. (1895). Diagnoses specierum novarum ex insulis Philippinis. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 27: 73–88, 105–121, 137–149
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