Achatina craveni
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| Achatina craveni | |
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| File:Achatina craveni shell.png | |
| Drawing of apertural view of a shell of Achatina craveni. | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Achatinina |
| Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
| Family: | Achatinidae |
| Genus: | Achatina |
| Species: | A. craveni
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| Binomial name | |
| Achatina craveni E. A. Smith, 1881[1]
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Achatina craveni is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae, the giant African snails.
Distribution
Distribution of Achatina craveni includes "between Zanzibar and Lake Tanganyika".[1] Achatina cf. craveni has been reported also from Mozambique by van Bruggen (2010).[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Smith E. A. (1881). "On a collection of shells from lakes Tanganyika and Nyassa and other localities in East Africa". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881: 276-300. page 283, Plate 33, figure 11.
- ↑ Bruggen A. C. van (2010). "A new record of ‘Achatina’ vassei Germain, 1918 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Achatinidae) from Mozambique – an unsolved problem". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine.
