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Achatina
Achatina is a genus of medium-sized to very large, air-breathing, tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae....
12 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Giant Tiger Land Snail
speciesAchatina achatina
Achatina schinziana
speciesAchatina schinziana
Achatina schweinfurthi
speciesAchatina schweinfurthi
Achatina smithii
speciesAchatina smithii
Achatina balteata
speciesAchatina balteata
Achatina craveni
speciesAchatina craveni
Achatina bandeirana
speciesAchatina bandeirana
Achatina vignoniana
speciesAchatina vignoniana
Achatina coroca
speciesAchatina coroca
Achatina weynsi
speciesAchatina weynsi
Achatina iostoma
speciesAchatina iostoma
Achatina connollyi
speciesAchatina connollyi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Achatina in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 68422.