Auriculastra is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae, the salt marsh snails.[1]

Auriculastra
Auriculastra duplicata, in this image only the shell is visible
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Ellobiida
Superfamily: Ellobioidea
Family: Ellobiidae
Genus: Auriculastra
Martens, 1880
Type species
Auriculastra subula
Quoy & Gaimard, 1832
Synonyms[1]
  • Auriculastra (Conauricula) Kókay, 2006 †· accepted, alternate representation
  • Cylindrotis Möllendorff, 1895
  • Marinula (Auriculastra) Martens, 1880 (original rank)

Species

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Species in the genus Auriculastra include:

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

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  1. ^ 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.
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