Achatina tincta

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Achatina tincta
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Shell of Achatina tincta at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
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clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
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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

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

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