Lissachatina immaculata

Lissachatina immaculata
Lissachatina immaculata immaculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Achatinina
Superfamily:	Achatinoidea
Family:	Achatinidae
Genus:	Lissachatina
Species:	L. immaculata
Binomial name
Lissachatina immaculata (Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms
Achatina (Lissachatina) immaculata Lamarck, 1822 (superseded combination) Achatina (Lissachatina) mulanjensis Crowley & Pain, 1981 accepted, alternate representation Achatina antourtourensis Crosse, 1879 (junior synonym) Achatina immaculata Lamarck, 1822 (superseded combination) Achatina lamarckiana L. Pfeiffer, 1847 (junior synonym) Achatina lechaptoisi Ancey, 1894 (junior synonym) Achatina mossambica Brancsik, 1893 (junior synonym) Achatina mulanjensis Crowley & Pain, 1981 (junior synonym) Achatina panthera Férussac, 1832 (junior synonym) Achatina panthera var. berevoensis Clench & Archer, 1930 (junior synonym) Achatina panthera var. minor Junod, 1899 (junior synonym) Helix (Cochlitoma) panthera Férussac, 1821 (nomen nudum)

Lissachatina immaculata is a species of very large, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae.

Usually grows to 12–15 cm.

Lissachatina immaculata panthera

Subspecies

Subspecies within this species include:

• Lissachatina immaculata immaculata
• Lissachatina immaculata panthera
• Lissachatina immaculata mozambique
• Lissachatina immaculata two-tone

Distribution

This species occurs in Southeastern Africa

References

• Crosse, H. (1879). Description d'un espèce nouvelle d'Achatina de Nossi-Bé. Journal de Conchyliologie 27: 340.

External links

• Lamarck, [J.-B. M. de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome sixième, 2me partie. Paris: published by the Author, 232 pp]
• Férussac, A.E.J.P.F. d'Audebard de. (1819-1832). Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles tant des espèces que l'on trouve aujourd'hui vivantes, que des dépouilles fossiles de celles qui n'existent plus; classés d'après les caractères essentiels que présentent ces animaux et leurs coquilles. J.-B. Bailliere, Paris.
• Pfeiffer, L. (1847). Descriptions of 38 new species of land-shells, in the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 14 (166)
• Fontanilla I.K.C. (2010). Achatina (Lissachatina) fulica Bowdich: its molecular phylogeny, genetic variation in global populations, and its possible role in the spread of the rat lungworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis (Chen). PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. 634 pp.

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