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Lissachatina fulica (Bowdich, 1822)

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Fontanilla I.K.C. 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. (2010).
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Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Mollusca
class
Gastropoda
order
Stylommatophora
family
Achatinidae
genus
Lissachatina
species
Lissachatina fulica

materials_examined

Material examined. Locality no. 10: CUMZ-CM 065 (1 shell; Fig. 9 B). Locality no. 12: CUMZ-CM 095 (4 shells). The snails were found to live on tree trunks and on the ground among leaf litter.

materials_examined

Material examined. Specimens from Vientiane Province, Laos (Fig. 20 A).

distribution

Distribution in Borneo. Sarawak: Kuching, Samarahan, Serian, Sibu, Mukah and Miri divisions. Sabah: Kudat, West Coast, Interior, Sandakan and Tawau divisions. Kalimantan. Distribution elsewhere. Circumtropical (Vermeulen and Whitten 1998).

materials_examined

Material examined. Gunung Doya: ME 8920, ME 9228. Gunung Kapor: ME 8507, ME 9016, ME 9241.

Name

Synonyms
Achatina acuta Lamarck, 1822
Achatina couroupa Lesson, 1831
Achatina fasciata Deshayes, 1831
Achatina fulica Bowdich, 1822
Achatina fulica Bowdich, 1822
Achatina fulica fulica
Achatina fulva Deshayes, 1838
Achatina mauritiana Lamarck, 1822
Achatina mauritiana var. sinistrorsa Grateloup, 1840
Achatina redivina Mabille, 1901
Achatina zebra var. macrostoma Beck, 1837
Helix fulica Férussac, 1821
Lissachatina fulica (Férussac, 1821)
Homonyms
Lissachatina fulica (Bowdich, 1822)
Lissachatina fulica (Férussac, 1821)
Common names
Giant African Snail in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Bequaert, J. C. (1950). Studies in the Achatininae, a group of African land snails. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 105(1): 1-216, plates 1-81.
  2. Espinosa, J. A. & Robinson, D. G. (2021). Annotated checklist of the terrestrial mollusks (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Hispaniola Island. <em>Novitates Caribaea.</em> 17: 71–146. 10.33800/nc.vi17.250
  3. Fontanilla I.K.C. (2010). </i>Achatina (Lissachatina) fulica</i> Bowdich: its molecular phylogeny, genetic variation in global populations, and its possible role in the spread of the rat lungworm <i>Angiostrongylus cantonensis</i> (Chen). PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. 634 pp.
  4. Gerlach, J. (2006). Terrestrial and freshwater Mollusca of the Seychelles islands. 1-141.
  5. Gerlach, J. (2006). Terrestrial and freshwater Mollusca of the Seychelles islands. 1-141.
  6. Gittenberger, E., Reijnen, B. T. & Groenenberg, D. S. J. (2019). Terrestrial gastropods of the Maldives, all of which are invasive?. <em>Journal of Conchology (2019),.</em> 43 (4): 1-31.
  7. Hovestadt A. & Neckheim C. M. (2020). A critical checklist of the non-marine molluscs of St. Martin, with notes on the terrestrial malacofauna of Anguilla and Saint-Barthélemy, and the description of a new subspecies. <em>Folia Conchyliologica.</em> 57: 1-38.
  8. Inkhavilay, K., Sutcharit, C., Bantaowong, U., Chanabun, R., Siriwut, W., Srisonchai, R., Pholyotha, A., Jirapatrasilp, P. & Panha, S. (2019). Annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs from Laos (Mollusca, Gastropoda). <em>ZooKeys.</em> 834: 1–166.
  9. Linares, É. L., & Vera, M. L. (2012). Catálogo de los moluscos continentales de Colombia. Aguirre Ceballos, J. Uribe, J., & Fernández F. (Eds.). Bogotá,D.C., Colombia: Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Facultad de Ciencias. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales
  10. Marzuki, M. E. bin, Liew, T. S. [Thor-Seng] & Mohd-Azlan, J. (2021). Land snails and slugs of Bau limestone hills, Sarawak (Malaysia, Borneo), with the descriptions of 13 new species. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 1035: 1–113 [27 April 2021].
  11. Sutcharit, C., Thach, P., Chhuoy, S., Ngor, P. B., Jeratthitikul, E., Siriwut, W., Srisonchai, R., Ng, T. H., Pholyotha, A., Jirapatrasilp, P. & Panha, S. (2020). Annotated checklist of the land snail fauna from southern Cambodia (Mollusca, Gastropoda). <em>ZooKeys.</em> 948: 1–46. 10.3897/zookeys.948.51671
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