Achatinidae

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Achatinidae
Giant East African Snail, Achatina fulica
Giant East African Snail, Achatina fulica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Pulmonata
Suborder: Eupulmonata
Infraorder: Stylommatophora
(unranked): Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Achatinoidea
Family: Achatinidae
Genera and species

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Achatinidae (New Latin, from Greek "agate") is a family of medium to large sized tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks from Africa. The family includes some 13 genera.

Well known species include Achatina achatina the Giant African Snail, and Achatina fulica the Giant East African Snail.

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Anatomy

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes varies from 26 to 30 (according to the values in this table).[1]

Taxonomy

The Achatinidae family is classified within the informal group Sigmurethra, itself belonging to the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata (according to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Genera

Genera in the family Achatinidae include:

References

  1. ^ Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.

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