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Giant Land Snails
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Giant Land Snails

Achatinidae

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

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

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12 branches of this family, most-observed first

Agate Snails

subfamilyAchatininae

Rumininae

subfamilyRumininae

Awl Snails and Allies

subfamilySubulininae

Glessulinae

subfamilyGlessulinae

Stenogyrinae

subfamilyStenogyrinae

Opeatinae

subfamilyOpeatinae

Petriolinae

subfamilyPetriolinae

Coeliaxinae

subfamilyCoeliaxinae

Pyrgininae

subfamilyPyrgininae

Thyrophorellinae

subfamilyThyrophorellinae

Chilonopsis

genusChilonopsis

Cryptelasminae

subfamilyCryptelasminae

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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 68421.