Achatinidae

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Achatinidae
Temporal range: Eocene–Recent
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Giant East African Snail, Lissachatina fulica
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Achatinina
Superfamily: Achatinoidea
Family: Achatinidae
Swainson, 1840 [1]

Achatinidae (New Latin, from Greek "agate") is a family of medium to large sized tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks from Africa.

Contents

Well known species include Achatina achatina the Giant African Snail, and Lissachatina fulica the Giant East African Snail.

As of 2022, there were 105 genera recognized within the family Achatinidae.

Description

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table). [2]

Distribution

The native distribution of Achatinidae is Africa south of the Sahara. [3]

Taxonomy

As of 2022, the family Achatinidae contains the following subfamilies: [4]

Genera

Burtoa nilotica shell Burtoa nilotica (Pfeiffer, 1861) (4427629258).jpg
Burtoa nilotica shell

The following genera are recognised in the family Achatinidae: [5]

Achatininae

Coeliaxinae

Cryptelasminae

Glessulinae

Opeatinae

Petriolinae

Pyrgininae

Rishetiinae

Rumininae

Stenogyrinae

Subulininae

Thyrophorellinae

Other subfamilies

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Stylommatophora is an order of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. This taxon includes most land snails and slugs. Stylommatophorans lack an operculum, but some close their shell apertures with temporary "operculum" (epiphragm) made of calcified mucus. They have two pairs of retractile tentacles, the upper pair of which bears eyes on the tentacle tips. All stylommatophorans are hermaphrodites.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bulimulidae</span> Family of gastropods

Bulimulidae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to large, air-breathing, tropical and sub-tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.

<i>Succinea</i> Genus of gastropods

Succinea, common name the amber snails, is a large genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Succineidae.

<i>Achatina</i> Genus of gastropods

Achatina is a genus of medium-sized to very large, air-breathing, tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.

<i>Archachatina</i> Genus of gastropods

Archachatina is a genus of large tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.

<i>Drymaeus</i> Genus of gastropods

Drymaeus is a large genus of medium-sized air-breathing, tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Peltellinae of the family Bulimulidae.

<i>Pleurodonte</i> Genus of gastropods

Pleurodonte is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pleurodontinae of the family Pleurodontidae.

<i>Subulina</i> Genus of molluscs

Subulina is a genus of small tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Streptaxidae</span> Family of gastropods

Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora. Six Streptaxidae subfamilies are accepted in the 2005 taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Subulininae</span> Subfamily of gastropods

Subulininae is a subfamily of small tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Helminthoglyptinae</span> Subfamily of land snails

The Helminthoglyptinae are a subfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks within the family Xanthonychidae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Achatinoidea</span> Superfamily of gastropods

The Achatinoidea are a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.

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<i>Cleopatra</i> (gastropod) Genus of gastropods

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<i>Homorus</i> Extinct genus of gastropods

Homorus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Achatinidae.

<i>Potadoma</i>

Potadoma is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Pachychilidae.

References

  1. Swainson W. J. (1840). A treatise on malacology161: 334.
  2. Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs . CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN   0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
  3. "Family summary for Achatinidae". AnimalBase, last change 24-11-2007, accessed 3 August 2010
  4. Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017. . World Register of Marine Species , Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  5. "WoRMS – World Register of Marine Species – Achatinidae Swainson, 1840". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  6. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.