''Archachatina'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of large tropical air-breathing

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

s in the family

Achatinidae 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 '' L ...

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Species

Species in the genus ''Archachatina'' include: * '' Archachatina bicarinata'' (Bruguière, 1789) -

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and Principe * ''Archachatina burnupi'' (E.A. Smith, 1890) * ''Archachatina buylaerti'' * '' Archachatina camerunensis'' d'Ailly, 1896 * ''Archachatina cinnamomea'' Mellvil & Ponsonby, 1894 * ''Archachatina cinnamomea'' J.C. Melvill & J.H. Ponsonby, 1894 * ''Archachatina crawfordi'' Morelet, 1889 * ''Archachatina degneri'' Bequaert & Clench, 1936-

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* ''Archachatina gaboonensis'' Pilsbry, 1933 -

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* ''Archachatina insularis'' T.E. Crowley & T. Pain, 1961 * '' Archachatina knorri'' (Jonas, 1839) * ''

Archachatina marginata The giant West African snail or banana rasp snail (''Archachatina marginata'') is a species of air-breathing Tropics, tropical land snail, a terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial Pulmonata, pulmonate Gastropoda, gastropod Mollusca, mollusk in the f ...

'' (Swainson, 1821) - giant West African snail,

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** ''Archachatina m.'' var. ''suturalis'' (Philippi, 1849) - São Tomé and Príncipe * ''Archachatina marinae'' Sirgel- South Africa * ''Archachatina papyracea'' (Pfeiffer, 1845) - Cameroon ** ''Archachatina p. adelinae'' Pilsbry, 1905 * ''Archachatina pentheri'' (R. Sturany, 1898) * ''Archachatina porphyrostoma'' H.A. Pilsbry, 1905 * ''Archachatina purpurea'' (Gmelin, 1790) -

* ''Archachatina puylaerti'' A.R. Mead, 1998 * ''Archachatina rhodostoma'' (R.A. Philippi, 1849) * ''Archachatina siderata'' (L.A. Reeve, 1849) * ''Archachatina subcylindrica'' H.B. Preston, 1909 * ''Archachatina transvaalensis'' (E.A. Smith, 1878) * ''Archachatina ventricosa'' Gould, 1850 -

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** ''Archachatina v. spectaculum'' Pilsbry, 1933 - Sierra Leone * ''Archachatina viridescens'' C.M.F. Ancey ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Archachatina bequaerti'' Crowley & Pain, 1961

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: synonym of '' Bruggenina bequaerti'' (Crowley & Pain, 1961) (original combination) * ''Archachatina churchilliana'' (J.C. Melvill & J.H. Ponsonby, 1895): synonym of '' Cochlitoma churchilliana'' (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1895) (superseded combination) * ''Archachatina dimidiata'' (E.A. Smith, 1878)- southeastern Africa: synonym of '' Cochlitoma dimidiata'' (E. A. Smith, 1878) (superseded combination) * ''Archachatina drakensbergensis'' (J.C. Melvill & J.H. Ponsonby, 1895): synonym of '' Cochlitoma drakensbergensis'' (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1897) (superseded combination) * ''Archachatina granulata'' (Krauss, 1848) -

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: synonym of '' Cochlitoma granulata'' (F. Krauss, 1848) (superseded combination) * ''Archachatina limitanea'' A.C. van Bruggen, 1984: synonym of '' Cochlitoma limitanea'' (van Bruggen, 1984) (superseded combination) * ''Archachatina montistempli'' van Bruggen, 1965 - South Africa: synonym of '' Cochlitoma montistempli'' (van Bruggen, 1965) (superseded combination) * ''Archachatina omissa'' van Bruggen, 1965 - South Africa: synonym of '' Cochlitoma omissa'' (van Bruggen, 1965) (superseded combination) * ''Archachatina parthenia'' (J.C. Melvill & J.H. Ponsonby, 1895): synonym of '' Cochlitoma parthenia'' (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1903) (superseded combination) * ''Archachatina sanctaeluciae'' A.C. van Bruggen, 1989: synonym of '' Cochlitoma churchilliana'' (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1895) (junior synonym) * ''Archachatina semidecussata'' (Pfeiffer, 1846): synonym of '' Cochlitoma semidecussata'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1846) (superseded combination) * ''Archachatina semigranosa'' L. Pfeiffer, 1861: synonym of '' Cochlitoma semigranosa'' (Pfeiffer, 1861) (superseded combination) * ''Archachatina simplex'' E.A. Smith, 1878: synonym of '' Cochlitoma simplex'' (E. A. Smith, 1878) (superseded combination) * ''Archachatina ustulata'' (

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, 1822) - South Africa: synonym of '' Cochlitoma ustulata'' (Lamarck, 1822) (superseded combination) * ''Archachatina vestita'' Pfeiffer, 1855: synonym of '' Cochlitoma vestita'' (L. Pfeiffer, 1855) (superseded combination) * ''Archachatina zuluensis'' Connolly - South Africa: synonym of '' Cochlitoma churchilliana'' (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1895)

References

* Bank, R. (2017). ''Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World''. Last update: July 16, 2017.

External links

Worldwide Mollusc Species Database: ''Archachatina''
Achatinidae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Achatinidae-stub