Achatinidae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Stylommatophora
- Family
- Achatinidae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Achatinidae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
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.
As of 2022, there were 105 genera recognized within the family Achatinidae.
...Achatinidae in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Reuselandslakke
- Chinese
- 瑪瑙螺科
- Chinese
- 非洲大蝸牛科
- Czech
- achatinovití
- English
- Giant Land Snails
- German
- Große Achatschnecken
- German
- Afrikanische Riesenschnecken
- Hebrew
- שבלולי ענק
- Japanese
- アフリカマイマイ科
- Korean
- 왕달팽이과
- Russian
- Ахатиниды
- Swedish
- sylsnäckor
- Thai
- หอยทากยักษ์
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