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 sea, not entirely terrestrial and not entirely marine. 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.

Mud-flat snail
A shell of Amphibola crenata
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Family: Amphibolidae
Genus: Amphibola
Schumacher, 1817
Species:
A. crenata
Binomial name
Amphibola crenata
(Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms
  • Amphibola australis Schumacher, 1817
  • Amphibola avellana (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Amphibola crenata (Martyn, 1786) (non-binomial)
  • Amphibola obvoluta Jonas, 1846
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