Lissachatina Explained

Lissachatina is a genus of air-breathing tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Achatininae of the family Achatinidae.^[1]

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

• 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)

External links

• 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

Notes and References

1. 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
2. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11069/1/Fontanilla-2010.pdf 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.