Lissachatina glutinosa
Shell of Lissachatina glutinosa from Ethiopia on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Achatinoidea
Family:	Achatinidae
Genus:	Lissachatina
Species:	L. glutinosa
Binomial name
Lissachatina glutinosa Pfeiffer, 1853
Synonyms
Achatina (Lissachatina) glutinosaL. Pfeiffer, 1854· accepted, alternate representation Achatina glutinosaL. Pfeiffer, 1854 (original combination) Achatina petersiE. von Martens, 1860

Lissachatina glutinosa, common name the African land snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae, the giant African snails. ^[1]

Contents

• Description
• Distribution
• References
• External links

Description

Shells of this species can reach a length of about 10–15 centimetres (3.9–5.9 in). ^[2]

Distribution

This species is found in Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe. ^{[2] [3]}

References

• Martens, E. von. (1860). Verzeichniss der von Prof. Peters in Mossambique gesammelten Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken. Malakozoologische Blätter, 6[1859]: 211–221.

External links

• Pfeiffer, L. (1854). Description of eighteen new species of land shells, from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 20(243) [“1852”]: 83–87. London

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