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 |
| Genus: | Archachatina Albers, 1850[1] |
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 buylaerti
- Archachatina camerunensis d'Ailly, 1896
- Archachatina cinnamomea Mellvil & Ponsonby, 1894
- Archachatina crawfordi Morelet, 1889
- Archachatina degneri Bequaert & Clench, 1936 - Ghana
- Archachatina dimidiata Smith, 1878 - Southeastern Africa
- Archachatina gaboonensis Pilsbry, 1933 - Gabon
- Archachatina granulata (Krauss, 1848) - South Africa
- Archachatina knorri (Jonas, 1839)
- Archachatina limitanea
- Archachatina marginata (Swainson, 1821) - Giant West African Snail, Western Africa (Cameroon through Zaire).
- Archachatina marginata var. suturalis (Philippi, 1849) - São Tomé and Principe
- 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 purpurea (Gmelin, 1790) - Ghana
- Archachatina semidecussata (Pfeiffer, 1846)
- 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 zuluensis Connolly - South Africa
References
- ↑ Albers (1850). Die Heliceen, 189.
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