Achatina

Taxobox
name = Achatina


image_caption = "Achatina fulica"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Stylommatophora
familia = Achatinidae
genus = "Achatina"

"Achatina" is a genus of medium-sized to very large, air-breathing, tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.

Distribution

There are some 200 species of Achatinidae in Sub-Saharan Africa.

hell description

Snails in this genus have medium to large shells which are ovate in shape and often colourfully streaked.

pecies within the genus "Achatina"

Species include:
* "Achatina achatina"
* "Achatina albopicta"
* "Achatina craveni"
* "Achatina fulica", East African Land Snail
* "Achatina glutinosa"
* "Achatina immaculata"
* "Achatina iredalei"
* "Achatina marginata"
* "Achatina nyikaensis"
* "Achatina reticulata"
* "Achatina smithii"
* "Achatina stuhlmannii"
* "Achatina varicosa"
* "Achatina vignoniana"
* "Achatina zebra"

References

External links

* [http://home.global.co.za/~peabrain/achatina.htm Achatinidae]
* [http://www.petsnails.co.uk/species/achatina_achatina.html Land snails]