Lignus is a
genus
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of air-breathing tropical
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 ...
s,
terrestrial
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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 ().
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mollusk
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s in the subfamily
Achatininae of 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 ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lignus Gray, 1834. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995605 on 2021-05-08]
Species
* ''
Lignus alabaster''
(Rang, 1831)
* ''
Lignus batesi''
(Preston, 1909)
* ''
Lignus belli''
(Germain, 1908)
* ''
Lignus cailleanus''
(Morelet, 1848)
* ''
Lignus efulensis''
(Preston, 1909)
* ''
Lignus interstinctus''
(Gould, 1843)
* ''
Lignus mucidus''
(Gould, 1850)
* ''
Lignus solimanus''
(Morelet, 1848)
* ''
Lignus tenuis''
Gray, 1834
* ''
Lignus verdieri''
(Chaper, 1885)
* ''
Lignus zegzeg''
(Morelet, 1848)
;Taxon inquirendum:
* ''Lignus turbinatus''
(I. Lea, 1841)
References
* Morelet, A., 1848 Revue zoologique.
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links
Gray, J. E. (1834). Land and freshwater shells hitherto undescribed. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1834) 2: 63-68Mörch, O. A. L. (1852-1853). Catalogus conchyliorum quae reliquit D. Alphonso d'Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi, Regis Daniae Cubiculariorum Princeps, Ordinis Dannebrogici in Prima Classe & Ordinis Caroli Tertii Eques. Fasc. 1, Cephalophora, 170 pp. [1852]; Fasc. 2, Acephala, Annulata, Cirripedia, Echinodermata, 74 [+2] pp. [1853]. Hafniae [Copenhagen]: L. Klein.Shuttleworth, R. J. (1856). Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss der Mollusken. Notitiae Malacologicae. 1: 1-90, pls 1-9
Achatinidae
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