Archachatina

Archachatina
Apertural view of a shell of Archachatina marginata
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
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

  1. ↑ Achatininae in www.petsnails.co.uk
  2. ↑ Albers (1850). Die Heliceen, 189.

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