Taxonomy and anatomy of Amphiboloidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Archaeopulmonata)
Author
Golding, Rosemary E.
Author
Ponder, Winston F.
Author
Byrne, Maria
text
Zootaxa
2007
1476
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.176773
1a670eb6-5f50-42d6-ace0-3e52fd4f4c17
1175-5326
176773
Salinator burmana
(Blandford, 1867)
Amphibola burmana
Blanford, 1867
: 66
, pl. 13, figs, 7–10.
Ampullarina burmana
;
Nevill 1878
: 249
.
Salinator burmana
;
Benthem Jutting 1956
: 451
, fig. 116.
Salinator fragilis
;
Smythe 1975
: 336
.
Remarks:
Salinator burmana
is distinguished from
S. fragilis
by fine growth striae, flattened whorls, shallow sutures and a narrower umbilicus (
Benthem Jutting 1956
). The distribution includes Java,
Thailand
and
India
.
Smythe (1975)
synonymised
S. burmana
with
S. fragilis
, based on similarities of the operculum and radula between Australian specimens of
S. fragilis
and amphibolid specimens collected in the Persian Gulf.
Benthem Jutting (1956)
mentions that the opercula of Javanese specimens of
S. burmana
bear faint spiral ridges around the nucleus. Specimens from the Persian Gulf, incorrectly attributed to
S. fragilis
by
Smythe (1975)
, may represent the western limit of this taxon if they are indeed conspecific. Given the imprecise nature of this taxon and its remarkably wide distribution across most of southern and western Asia, it may well comprise of many cryptic species.