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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Heterobranchia
Infraclassis: Euthyneura
Cohors: Tectipleura
Subcohors: Panpulmonata
SuperOrdo: Eupulmonata
Ordo: Stylommatophora
SubOrdo: Helicina
InfraOrdo: Limacoidei
Superfamilia: Helicarionoidea

Familia: Helicarionidae
Subfamilia: Helicarioninae
Genus: Nitor

Nitor is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Helicarionidae.
Species

Species within the genus Nitor include:

Nitor circumcincta [1]
Nitor helmsianus Iredale, 1941
Nitor medioximus Iredale, 1941[3]
Nitor moretonensis - Moreton land snail[citation needed]
Nitor pudibunda (Cox, 1868)[3]
Nitor subrugata (Reeve, 1852)[3]
Nitor wiangariensis Hyman, 2007[3] - Wiangarie Forest Glass Snail

References

Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
Gude G. K. (1911). "Note on some preoccupied molluscan generic names and proposed new genera of the family Zonitidae". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 9: 269-273. page 270.
"Names List for Nitor Gude, 1911". Australian Biological Resources Study. Australian Faunal Directory. Last updated 26 July 2010, accessed 7 January 2011.

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