''Amphibola'' is a

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of small, air-breathing

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...

or semi- marine

snail A snail is, in loose terms, a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gastro ...

s with an operculum,

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusc Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...

s in the

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Amphibolidae Amphibolidae is a family of air-breathing snails with opercula, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. This family of pulmonate gastropods, for breathe air, but also have opercula and at least some species go through a free-swimming velig ...

.Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2012). Amphibola. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527757 on 2012-05-10

Species

Species within the genus ''Amphibola'' include: * '' Amphibola africana'' (E. A. Smith, 1904) * ''

Amphibola crenata ''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 se ...

'' (Gmelin, 1791) ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Amphibola australis'' Schumacher, 1817: synonym of ''Amphibola crenata'' (Gmelin, 1791) * ''Amphibola avellana'' (Bruguière, 1789): synonym of ''Amphibola crenata'' (Gmelin, 1791) * ''Amphibola burmana'' Blanford, 1867: synonym of '' Salinator burmana'' (Blanford, 1867) * ''Amphibola crenata'' (Martyn, 1786): synonym of ''Amphibola crenata'' (Gmelin, 1791) * ''Amphibola obvoluta'' Jonas, 1846: synonym of ''Amphibola crenata'' (Gmelin, 1791) * ''Amphibola sanchezi'' Quadras & Möllendorf, 1894: synonym of '' Salinator sanchezi'' (Quadras & Möllendorf, 1894) * ''Amphibola solida'' Martens, 1878: synonym of '' Phallomedusa solida'' (Martens, 1878) ;Species inquirenda: * ''Amphibola quadrasi'' Möllendorf, 1894

References

* Golding R.E., Ponder W.F. & Byrne M. 2007. ''Taxonomy and anatomy of Amphiboloidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Archaeopulmonata).'' Zootaxa 1476: 1-50 page(s): 6 {{Taxonbar, from=Q4748205 Amphibolidae