Species notes
About Achatina fulica
Achatina fulica is treated by the GBIF Backbone as a synonym of Lissachatina fulica (also recorded as Giant African Snail), an accepted species in the family Achatinidae, within the order Stylommatophora. Checklist records aggregated by GBIF list it from Galápagos Islands, Reunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Bucaramanga, Seychelles, Mozambique, and Laos. Land snails are molluscs that move on a muscular foot and usually carry a coiled shell that protects the soft body.
- Common name
- Giant African Snail
- Family
- Achatinidae
- Order
- Stylommatophora
- Identification rank
- Species
- Recorded distribution
- Galápagos Islands, Reunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Bucaramanga, Seychelles, Mozambique, Laos
Taxonomy source: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
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