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.Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority It was originally described as being in the genus Ampullaria, but was split off into the genus Salinator in 1900 by Charles Hedley.Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database
Distribution This species lives on the coast of Australia and also in Melanesia.Global Biodiversity Information Facility The species also reported from mangrove ecosystems of India i.e. Sunderbans, Kakinada bay and Mumbai.G. Kantharajan, P.K. Pandey, P. Krishnan, V. Deepak Samuel, V.S. Bharti, R. Purvaja, Molluscan diversity in the mangrove ecosystem of Mumbai, west coast of India, In Regional Studies in Marine Science, Volume 14, 2017, Pages 102-111, ISSN 2352-4855, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2017.06.002.
Habitat This snail lives in salt-marshes, estuaries and mangrove ecosystems.
Diet This species feeds on detritus.
References
Golding R.E., Ponder W.F. & Byrne M. 2007. Taxonomy and anatomy of Amphiboloidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Archaeopulmonata). Zootaxa 1476: 1-50 page(s): 10