Lignus is a genus of air-breathing tropical land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Achatininae of the family Achatinidae.
[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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