Salinator is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of small, air-breathing terrestrial

Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

 or semi-marine

Marine (ocean)

Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...

 snail

Snail

Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...

s with an operculum

Operculum (gastropod)

The operculum, meaning little lid, is a corneous or calcareous anatomical structure which exists in many groups of sea snails and freshwater snails, and also in a few groups of land snails...

, pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Amphibolidae

Amphibolidae

Amphibolidae is a family of air-breathing snails with opercula, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs.The family is considered to be among the most primitive of the pulmonate gastropods, for although amphibolids breathe air, they also have opercula and at least some species go through a...

.

Species

Species within the genus Salinator include:

• Salinator fragilis
  Salinator fragilis
  Salinator fragilis is a species of small, air-breathing land snail with an operculum, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Amphibolidae. The species is sometimes referred to as the fragile air breather. It was originally described as being in the genus Ampullaria, but was split off into the...
  
  (Lamarck, 1822)
• Salinator rhamphidia Golding, Ponder
  Winston Ponder
  Winston F. Ponder B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D, D.Sc. is a noted malacologist from New Zealand who has named and described many marine animals, especially micromolluscs. He is a graduate of the University of Auckland, New Zealand....
  
   & Byrne, 2007
• Salinator rosacea Golding, Ponder
  Winston Ponder
  Winston F. Ponder B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D, D.Sc. is a noted malacologist from New Zealand who has named and described many marine animals, especially micromolluscs. He is a graduate of the University of Auckland, New Zealand....
  
   & Byrne, 2007
• Salinator tecta Golding, Ponder
  Winston Ponder
  Winston F. Ponder B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D, D.Sc. is a noted malacologist from New Zealand who has named and described many marine animals, especially micromolluscs. He is a graduate of the University of Auckland, New Zealand....
  
   & Byrne, 2007

incertae sedis

Incertae sedis

, is a term used to define a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Uncertainty at specific taxonomic levels is attributed by , , and similar terms.-Examples:*The fossil plant Paradinandra suecica could not be assigned to any...

:

• Salinator burmana (Blanford, 1867)
• Salinator sanchezi (Qadras & Möllendorf, 1894)
• Salinator quoyana (Potiez & Michaud, 1838)

synonyms:

• Salinator solida (Martens, 1878) is a synonym for Phallomedusa solida (Martens, 1878)
• Salinator takii Kuroda, 1928 is a synonym for Lactiforis takii (Kuroda, 1928)

In 2007, Golding, Ponder

Winston Ponder

Winston F. Ponder B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D, D.Sc. is a noted malacologist from New Zealand who has named and described many marine animals, especially micromolluscs. He is a graduate of the University of Auckland, New Zealand....

, and Byrne suggested that Salinator takii be moved into the newly erected genus Lactiforis, and that Salinator solida be moved into the newly erected genus Phallomedusa

Phallomedusa

Phallomedusa is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails with an operculum, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc.Phallomedusa is the only genus in the family Phallomedusidae.-Species:Species in the genus Phallomedusa include:...

in a separate family called Phallomedusidae.