Acavus

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Acavus
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Five views of a shell of Acavus haemastoma fastuosa(Albers, 1854) from Sri Lanka
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Informal group: Sigmurethra
Family: Acavidae
Genus: Acavus
Montfort, 1810

Acavus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Acavidae.

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They belongs to group of tree snails that inhabited the ancient continent of Gondwana over 150 million years ago.

These beautiful tree snails are endemic to Sri Lanka. It is present a large intraspecific polymorphism, with the development of various geographical subspecies (among them Acavus phoenix phoenix and Acavus phoenix castaneus).

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