Achatina craveni
Achatina craveni is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae, the giant African snails.
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| Drawing of apertural view of a shell of Achatina craveni. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Achatinina |
| Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
| Family: | Achatinidae |
| Genus: | Achatina |
| Species: | A. craveni |
| Binomial name | |
| Achatina craveni E. A. Smith, 1881[1] | |
Distribution
Distribution of Achatina craveni includes "between Zanzibar and Lake Tanganyika".[1]
Achatina cf. craveni has been reported also from Mozambique by van Bruggen (2010).[2]
References
- Smith E. A. (1881). "On a collection of shells from lakes Tanganyika and Nyassa and other localities in East Africa". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881: 276-300. page 283, Plate 33, figure 11.
- Bruggen A. C. van (2010). "A new record of ‘Achatina’ vassei Germain, 1918 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Achatinidae) from Mozambique – an unsolved problem". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine.
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