Achatina tincta
Appearance
Achatina tincta | |
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Shell of Achatina tincta at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Suborder: | Achatinina |
Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
Family: | Achatinidae |
Genus: | Achatina |
Species: | A. tincta
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Binomial name | |
Achatina tincta Reeve, 1842
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Achatina tincta is a species of large air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae, the giant African snails.
Distribution
[edit]This species is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola.
References
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