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Achatina tincta

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Achatina tincta
Shell of Achatina tincta at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
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. tincta
Binomial name
Achatina tincta
Reeve, 1842

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

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This species is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola.

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