''Lissachatina glutinosa'',
common name
In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrast ...
the African land snail, is a
species of air-breathing
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 ...
, a
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 ...
mollusk in the family
Achatinidae, the giant African snails.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lissachatina glutinosa (L. Pfeiffer, 1854). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1375095 on 2021-06-15]
Description
Shells of this species can reach a length of about .
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Distribution
This species is found in Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe.[WMSDB]
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References
* Martens, E. von. (1860). Verzeichniss der von Prof. Peters in Mossambique gesammelten Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken. Malakozoologische Blätter, 6 859 211-221.
External links
Pfeiffer, L. (1854). Description of eighteen new species of land shells, from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 20(243) [“1852”
83–87. London]
Achatinidae
Gastropods described in 1853
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