Lissachatina is a genus of air-breathing tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Achatininae of the family Achatinidae.[1]
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| A live individual of Lissachatina fulica from Thailand | |
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| A shell of Lissachatina fulica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Achatinina |
| Superfamily: | Achatinoidea |
| Family: | Achatinidae |
| Genus: | Lissachatina Bequaert, 1950 |
| Type species | |
| Achatina fulica Bowdich, 1822 | |
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The molecular data clearly shows that Lissachatina consistently clusters as a monophyletic entity separate from Achatina and Fontanilla stated that there is no basis for continuing to employ Lissachatina as a subgenus of Achatina and that it should be regarded as a genus in its own right.[2]
Species
edit- Lissachatina albopicta (E. A. Smith, 1878)
- Lissachatina allisa (L. Reeve, 1849)
- Lissachatina bloyeti (Bourguignat, 1890)
- Lissachatina capelloi (Furtado, 1886)
- Lissachatina eleanorae (Mead, 1995)
- Lissachatina fulica (Bowdich, 1822)
- Lissachatina glaucina (E. A. Smith, 1899)
- Lissachatina glutinosa (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
- Lissachatina immaculata (Lamarck, 1822)
- Lissachatina johnstoni (E. A. Smith, 1899)
- Lissachatina kilimae (Dautzenberg, 1908)
- Lissachatina lactea (L. Reeve, 1842)
- Lissachatina loveridgei (Clench & Archer, 1930)
- Lissachatina reticulata (L. Pfeiffer, 1845)
- Lissachatina zanzibarica (Bourguignat, 1879)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Lissachatina yalaensis (Germain, 1936): synonym of Oreohomorus connollyi (Odhner, 1932)
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lissachatina Bequaert, 1950. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=881468 on 2021-06-15
- ^ Fontanilla I.K.C. (2010). Achatina (Lissachatina) fulica Bowdich: its molecular phylogeny, genetic variation in global populations, and its possible role in the spread of the rat lungworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis (Chen). PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. 634 pp.
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- Bequaert, J. C. (1950). Studies in the Achatininae, a group of African land snails. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 105(1): 1-216, plates 1-81
- Clench, W. J.; Archer, A. F. (1930). New land snails from Tanganyika territory. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History. 5: 295-300
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