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 marginata var. suturalis (Philippi, 1849) - São Tomé and Principe
• 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.

External links

• "Archachatina". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
• Worldwide Mollusc Species Database: Archachatina