Achatina albopicta
African land snail | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
Family: | Achatinidae |
Subfamily: | Achatininae |
Genus: | Achatina |
Subgenus: | Lissachatina |
Species: | A. albopicta |
Binomial name | |
Achatina albopicta E. A. Smith, 1878 | |
Achatina albopicta, common name the African land snail, is a species of large air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae.
This species is native to Kenya.[1]
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