Giant African land snail is the common name of several species within the family
Achatinidae, a family of unusually large
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...
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Achatina achatina'', also known as the agate snail or Ghana tiger snail
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Lissachatina fulica'', a serious agricultural pest in some countries
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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 ...
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