Amphibola crenata
| Mud-flat snail | |
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| A shell of Amphibola crenata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Family: | Amphibolidae |
| Genus: | Amphibola Schumacher, 1817 |
| Species: | A. crenata |
| Binomial name | |
| Amphibola crenata (Gmelin, 1791) | |
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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.