Lissachatina is a genus of air-breathing tropical

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...

s, terrestrial

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusks in the subfamily Achatininae of the family Achatinidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lissachatina Bequaert, 1950. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=881468 on 2021-06-15 The molecular data clearly shows that ''Lissachatina'' consistently clusters as a monophyletic entity separate from ''Achatina'' and Fontanilla stated that there is no basis for continuing to employ ''Lissachatina'' as a subgenus of ''Achatina'' and that it should be regarded as a genus in it own right. Fontanilla I.K.C. (2010). Achatina (Lissachatina) fulica Bowdich: its molecular phylogeny, genetic variation in global populations, and its possible role in the spread of the rat lungworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis (Chen). PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. 634 pp.

Species

* '' Lissachatina albopicta'' (E. A. Smith, 1878) * ''

Lissachatina allisa Lissachatina is a genus of air-breathing tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Achatininae of the family Achatinidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lissachatina Bequaert, 1950. Accessed th ...

'' (L. Reeve, 1849) * '' Lissachatina bloyeti'' (Bourguignat, 1890) * '' Lissachatina capelloi'' (Furtado, 1886) * '' Lissachatina eleanorae'' (Mead, 1995) * ''

Lissachatina fulica ''Lissachatina fulica'' is a species of large land snail that belongs in the subfamily Achatininae of the family Achatinidae. It is also known as the Giant African land snail.Lissachatina glaucina'' (E. A. Smith, 1899) * '' Lissachatina glutinosa'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1854) * '' Lissachatina immaculata'' (Lamarck, 1822) * '' Lissachatina johnstoni'' (E. A. Smith, 1899) * '' Lissachatina kilimae'' (Dautzenberg, 1908) * '' Lissachatina lactea'' (L. Reeve, 1842) * '' Lissachatina loveridgei'' (Clench & Archer, 1930) * '' Lissachatina reticulata'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1845) * '' Lissachatina zanzibarica'' (Bourguignat, 1879) ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Lissachatina yalaensis'' (Germain, 1936): synonym of '' Oreohomorus connollyi'' (Odhner, 1932)

References

External links

Bequaert, J. C. (1950). Studies in the Achatininae, a group of African land snails. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 105(1): 1-216, plates 1-81

Clench, W. J.; Archer, A. F. (1930). New land snails from Tanganyika territory. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History. 5: 295-300
Achatinidae {{Achatinidae-stub