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Achatina achatina (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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| Western Africa in countries along the coast of the Gulf of Guinea |
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Achatina achatina (Linnaeus, 1758: 728, species 343, introduced as Bulla, <http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/img/?IDDOC=265100>), type species of Achatina Lamarck, 1799 by monotypy. Achatina, in turn, is the type genus of Achatinoidea: Achatinidae Swainson, 1840. |
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