Achatinidae

Achatinidae
Temporal range: Pleistocene–Recent[1]
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Giant East African Snail, Achatina fulica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Achatinoidea
Family: Achatinidae
Swainson, 1840[2]
Genera and species

See text

Achatinidae (New Latin, from Greek "agate") is a family of medium to large sized tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks from Africa. The family includes some 13 genera.

Well known species include Achatina achatina the Giant African Snail, and Achatina fulica the Giant East African Snail.

Distribution

The native distribution of Achatinidae is Africa south of the Sahara.[1]

Anatomy

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).[3]

Taxonomy

The Achatinidae family is classified within the informal group Sigmurethra, itself belonging to the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata (according to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[4]

Genera

Burtoa nilotica

Genera in the family Achatinidae include:

Achatininae

Callistoplepinae

Limicolariinae

subfamily ?

References

  1. 1 2 "Family summary for Achatinidae". AnimalBase, last change 24-11-2007, accessed 3 August 2010
  2. ↑ Swainson W. J. (1840). A treatise on malacology161: 334.
  3. ↑ Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  5. ↑ Achatininae in www.petsnails.co.uk
  6. ↑ Mead A. R. (2004). "Comparative reproductive anatomy in the South African giant land snails (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Achatinidae)". Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 78: 417-449.

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