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Achatina craveni

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Achatina craveni
Drawing of apertural view of a shell of Achatina craveni.
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. craveni
Binomial name
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.

Distribution

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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

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  1. ^ a b 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.
  2. ^ 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.