Achatina tincta
| Achatina tincta | |
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| Shell of Achatina tincta at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
| Family: | Achatinidae |
| Subfamily: | Achatininae |
| Genus: | Achatina |
| Species: | A. tincta |
| Binomial name | |
| Achatina tincta Reeve, 1842 | |
Achatina tincta is a species of large air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae, the giant African snails.
Distribution
This species is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola.
References
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