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| Mud-flat snail | |
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| A shell of Amphibola crenata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Family: | Amphibolidae |
| Genus: | Amphibola Schumacher, 1817[1] |
| Species: | A. crenata
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| Binomial name | |
| Amphibola crenata (Gmelin, 1791)
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Amphibola crenata (tītiko in the Māori language or mud-flat snail in English) is a species of air-breathing snail with an operculum, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc which lives in a habitat that is intermediate between the land and the sea, not entirely terrestrial and not entirely marine.[2] This is not a true land snail, but it is also not a true sea snail. Unlike almost all other snails that have opercula, this species breathes air. It is common in New Zealand.[3]
- ^ Schumacher H. C. F. (1817). Essai Vers test. 58: 190.
- ^ a b Rosenberg, G. (2011). Amphibola crenata (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=590660 on 2012-04-06
- ^ Powell A. W. B. (1979). William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN 0-00-216906-1