Auriculastra
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| Auriculastra | |
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| Shell of Auriculastra duplicata (syntype in the MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Ellobiida |
| Superfamily: | Ellobioidea |
| Family: | Ellobiidae |
| Genus: | Auriculastra Martens, 1880 |
| Type species | |
| Auriculastra subula Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 | |
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Auriculastra is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pythiinae of the family Ellobiidae, the salt marsh snails.[1]
Distribution
Species of this marine genus occur in the Indo-Pacific Ocean from Mauritius and the Comores to Southeast Asia and Indonesia, New Guinea, the Philippines and also New Caledonia and Australia (Queensland).
