Lissachatina immaculata
Lissachatina immaculata is a species of very large, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae. [1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Achatinina |
| Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
| Family: | Achatinidae |
| Genus: | Lissachatina |
| Species: | L. immaculata |
| Binomial name | |
| Lissachatina immaculata (Lamarck, 1822) | |
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Usually grows to 12–15 cm.
Lissachatina immaculata panthera
Subspecies
Subspecies within this species include:
- Lissachatina immaculata immaculata
- Lissachatina immaculata panthera
- Lissachatina immaculata mozambique
- Lissachatina immaculata two-tone
Distribution
This species occurs in Southeastern Africa
References
- MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lissachatina immaculata (Lamarck, 1822). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1375088 on 2021-06-15
- Crosse, H. (1879). Description d'un espèce nouvelle d'Achatina de Nossi-Bé. Journal de Conchyliologie 27: 340.
External links
- Lamarck, [J.-B. M. de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome sixième, 2me partie. Paris: published by the Author, 232 pp]
- Férussac, A.E.J.P.F. d'Audebard de. (1819-1832). Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles tant des espèces que l'on trouve aujourd'hui vivantes, que des dépouilles fossiles de celles qui n'existent plus; classés d'après les caractères essentiels que présentent ces animaux et leurs coquilles. J.-B. Bailliere, Paris.
- Pfeiffer, L. (1847). Descriptions of 38 new species of land-shells, in the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 14 (166)
- Fontanilla I.K.C. (2010). Achatina (Lissachatina) fulica Bowdich: its molecular phylogeny, genetic variation in global populations, and its possible role in the spread of the rat lungworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis (Chen). PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. 634 pp.
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