Archachatina
Archachatina | |
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Apertural view of a shell of Archachatina marginata | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
Family: | Achatinidae |
Subfamily: | Achatininae[1] |
Genus: | Archachatina Albers, 1850[2] |
Archachatina is a genus of large tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.
Species
Species in the genus Archachatina include:
- Archachatina bequaerti Crowley & Pain- Malawi
- Archachatina bicarinata (Bruguière, 1789) - São Tomé and Principe
- Archachatina burnupi (E.A. Smith, 1890)
- Archachatina buylaerti
- Archachatina camerunensis d'Ailly, 1896
- Archachatina cinnamomea Mellvil & Ponsonby, 1894
- Archachatina churchilliana (J.C. Melvill & J.H. Ponsonby, 1895)
- Archachatina cinnamomea J.C. Melvill & J.H. Ponsonby, 1894
- Archachatina crawfordi Morelet, 1889
- Archachatina degneri Bequaert & Clench, 1936- Ghana
- Archachatina dimidiata (E.A. Smith, 1878)- Southeastern Africa
- Archachatina drakensbergensis (J.C. Melvill & J.H. Ponsonby, 1895)
- Archachatina gaboonensis Pilsbry, 1933 - Gabon
- Archachatina granulata (Krauss, 1848) - South Africa
- Archachatina insularis T.E. Crowley & T. Pain, 1961
- Archachatina knorri (Jonas, 1839)
- Archachatina limitanea A.C. van Bruggen, 1984
- Archachatina marginata (Swainson, 1821) - Giant West African Snail, Western Africa (Cameroon through Zaire).
- Archachatina marinae Sirgel- South Africa
- Archachatina montistempli van Bruggen- South Africa
- Archachatina omissa van Bruggen- South Africa
- Archachatina papyracea (Pfeiffer, 1845) - Cameroun
- Archachatina papyracea adelinae Pilsbry, 1905
- Archachatina parthenia (J.C. Melvill & J.H. Ponsonby, 1895)
- Archachatina pentheri (R. Sturany, 1898)
- Archachatina porphyrostoma H.A. Pilsbry, 1905
- Archachatina purpurea (Gmelin, 1790) - Ghana
- Archachatina puylaerti A.R. Mead, 1998
- Archachatina rhodostoma (R.A. Philippi, 1849)
- Archachatina sanctaeluciae A.C. van Bruggen, 1989
- Archachatina semidecussata (Pfeiffer, 1846)
- Archachatina semigranosa L. Pfeiffer, 1861
- Archachatina siderata (L.A. Reeve, 1849)
- Archachatina simplex E.A. Smith, 1878
- Archachatina subcylindrica H.B. Preston, 1909
- Archachatina transvaalensis (E.A. Smith, 1878)
- Archachatina ustulata (Lamarck, 1822) - South Africa
- Archachatina ventricosa Gould, 1850 - Liberia, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire
- Archachatina ventricosa spectaculum Pilsbry, 1933 - Sierra Leone
- Archachatina vestita Pfeiffer, 1855
- Archachatina viridescens C.M.F. Ancey
- Archachatina zuluensis Connolly - South Africa
References
- ↑ Achatininae in www.petsnails.co.uk
- ↑ Albers (1850). Die Heliceen, 189.
External links
Wikispecies has information related to: Archachatina |
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- "Archachatina". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
- Worldwide Mollusc Species Database: Archachatina
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