Achatina

Achatina is a genus of medium-sized to very large, air-breathing, tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.

Species

GENUS

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumMollusca
ClassGastropoda
OrderStylommatophora
FamilyAchatinidae

Habitatmarine

Observations recorded4,770

Ampulla is een geslacht van weekdieren uit de klasse van de Gastropoda (slakken).

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records: 821
With media: 45
Family: Achatinidae
Collections: RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, CAS, UCMP, NHMUK, UOMNH, NMV
Recorded in: Zambia, Dr Congo, Gabon, Palau, Kenya, Italy, Taiwan, Federated States Of Micronesia

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Achatina is a genus of medium-sized to very large, air-breathing, tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.

==Distribution== There are some 200 species of Achatinidae in Sub-Saharan Africa. Some species are kept as terrarium animals due to their size of three inches, and colourful shells.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Achatina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.