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Achatinidae
Sign in to saveAchatinidae (New Latin, from Greek "agate") is a family of medium to large sized tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks from Africa.
Species
giant African snails
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyAchatinidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded129,008
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 466
- With media
- 7
- Family
- Achatinidae
- Collections
- PRI, YPM, CM, MCZ, USNM, CAS
- Recorded in
- Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Comoro Islands, United States, Philippines, Mexico, Uganda, Indonesia
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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.
Well known species include Achatina achatina the Giant African Snail, and Lissachatina fulica the Giant East African Snail.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Achatinidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.