Achatinidae
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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.
Distribution
The native distribution of Achatinidae is Africa south of the Sahara.[1]
Anatomy
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).[3]
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).[4]
- Achatininae Swainson, 1840 - synonyms: Urceidae Chaper, 1884; Ampullidae Winckworth, 1945
- Callistoplepinae Mead, 1994
- Limicolariinae Schileyko, 1999
Genera
Genera in the family Achatinidae include:
Achatininae
Callistoplepinae
- Callistoplepa Ancey, 1888 - type genus of the subfamily Limicolariinae[4]
- Callistoplepa graneri Thiele, 1811 - Congo
- Callistoplepa columna Müller, 1774 - São Tomé and Principe
- Callistoplepa leai Tryon, 1866 - São Tomé and Principe
Limicolariinae
- Limicolaria Schumacher, 1817 - type genus of the subfamily Limicolariinae[4]
subfamily ?
- Archachatina Albers, 1850
- Bruggenina Mead, 2004[5] Type species by original designation Archachatina sandgroundi Bequaert, 1950
- Burtoa Bourguignat, 1889
- Burtoa nilotica Pfeiffer, 1861 - Congo
- Cochlitoma Férussac, 1821
- Columna Perry, 1811
- Columna columna (Muller 1774)
- Columna flammea von Martens
- Columna hainesi (Pfeiffer, 1852)
- Columna leai Tryon 1866
- Lignus Gray, 1834
- Lignus alabaster Rang, 1831 - Guinea
- Lignus auripigmentum Reeve, 1848 - East Africa
- Lignus intertinctus Gould, 1843 - Liberia
- Lignus leai Pilsbry, 1933 - Liberia
- Lignus solimanus Morelet, 1848 - Cameroun
- Lissachatina Bequaert, 1951
- Metachatina Pilsbry, 1904
- Metachatina kraussi Pfeiffer, 1846
- Perideriopis[citation needed]
- Perideriopis fallsensis Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900 - Congo
- Perideriopis fallsensis pronuba Pilsbry, 1919 - Congo
- Perideriopis umbilicata Putzeys, 1898 - Congo
- Perideriopis fallsensis Dupuis & Putzeys, 1900 - Congo
- Pseudachatina Albers, 1850
- Perideriopis dennisoni Pfeiffer - Cameroun, Gabon
- Perideriopis downesii Sowerby, 1838 - Gabon
- Perideriopis wrighti Sowerby, 1853 - Guinea
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Family summary for Achatinidae". AnimalBase, last change 24-11-2007, accessed 3 August 2010
- ↑ Swainson W. J. (1840). A treatise on malacology161: 334.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Mead A. R. (2004). "Comparative reproductive anatomy in the South African giant land snails (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Achatinidae)". Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 78: 417-449.
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