Lissachatina fulica (Bowdich, 1822)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- 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).





















































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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Gerlach, J. (2006). Terrestrial and freshwater Mollusca of the Seychelles islands. 1-141.
- Gerlach, J. (2006). Terrestrial and freshwater Mollusca of the Seychelles islands. 1-141.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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].
- 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