WoRMS taxon details

Achatina Lamarck, 1799

818098  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:818098)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Gastropoda (Class)
  5. Heterobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Euthyneura (Infraclass)
  7. Tectipleura (Subterclass)
  8. Eupulmonata (Superorder)
  9. Stylommatophora (Order)
  10. Achatinina (Suborder)
  11. Achatinoidea (Superfamily)
  12. Achatinidae (Family)
  13. Achatininae (Subfamily)
  14. Achatinini (Tribe)
  15. Achatina (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Achatina (Achatina) Lamarck, 1799 · alternative representation
Achatina (Pintoa) Bourguignat, 1890 · alternative representation
Achatina (Tripachatina) Bourguignat, 1890 · alternative representation
Achatinus Montfort, 1810 · unaccepted (Invalid: unjustified emendation...)  
Invalid: unjustified emendation of Achatina Lamarck, 1799
Achatium Link, 1807 · unaccepted (Invalid: unjustified emendation...)  
Invalid: unjustified emendation of Achatina Lamarck, 1799.
Agathina J. B. Férussac, 1807 · unaccepted (invalid: unjustified emendation...)  
invalid: unjustified emendation of Achatina Lamarck, 1799
Agatina auct. · unaccepted (incorrect subsequent spelling)
Euachatina Shuttleworth, 1856 · unaccepted (subjective synonym based on...)  
subjective synonym based on synonymy of type species
Geodes Gistel, 1848 · unaccepted (substitute name for Achatina, no...)  
substitute name for Achatina, no species mentioned.
Glandina (Achatina) Lamarck, 1799 · unaccepted (considered a separate genus)
Oncaea Gistel, 1848 · unaccepted (Invalid: junior homonym of Oncaea...)  
Invalid: junior homonym of Oncaea Philippi, 1843 [Crustacea]
Urceus Mörch, 1857 · unaccepted (subjective synonym based on...)  
subjective synonym based on synonymy of type species

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  1. Subgenus Achatina (Cochlycopa) Hanley, 1841 accepted as Ampulla Röding, 1798
  2. Species Achatina fulva sensu Deshayes, 1838 accepted as Achatina maculata Swainson, 1821 accepted as Ampulla priamus (Gmelin, 1791) (unaccepted > misapplication, not Bruguière, 1792)
  3. Species Achatina maculata Swainson, 1821 accepted as Ampulla priamus (Gmelin, 1791)
  4. Species Achatina pellucida L. Pfeiffer, 1840 accepted as Blauneria heteroclita (Montagu, 1808) (invalid: junior homonym [ICZN Art. 11.9.3.2] of Agathina pellucida Deshayes, 1824; Tornatellina cubensis is a replacement name)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. <em>Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris.</em> 1: 63-91., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13585626
page(s): 75 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Achatina Lamarck, 1799. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818098 on 2025-04-03
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2014-09-29 08:39:29Z
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2014-10-25 07:22:02Z
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2017-06-15 07:03:19Z
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Bank, Ruud
2017-10-07 15:40:33Z
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Bouchet, Philippe
2024-02-12 04:48:27Z
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Köhler, Frank

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Nomenclature

original description Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. <em>Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris.</em> 1: 63-91., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13585626
page(s): 75 [details] 

original description (of Achatina (Pintoa) Bourguignat, 1890) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1890). Mollusques de l'Afrique équatoriale de Moguedouchou à Bagamoyo et de Bagamoyo au Tanganika. 1-229, pls 1-8. Book dated 1889, publication date 1890., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12909251
page(s): 80 [details] 

original description (of Achatina (Tripachatina) Bourguignat, 1890) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1890). Mollusques de l'Afrique équatoriale de Moguedouchou à Bagamoyo et de Bagamoyo au Tanganika. 1-229, pls 1-8. Book dated 1889, publication date 1890., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12909251
page(s): 73 [details] 

original description (of Achatinus Montfort, 1810) Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. <em>Paris: Schoell.</em> Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810 (before 28 May)]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10571
page(s): 2: 418 [details] 

original description (of Achatium Link, 1807) Link, D. H. F. (1806-1808). Beschreibung der Naturalien-Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Adlers Erben. 1, pp. 1-50 [1806]; 2, pp. 51-100 [1807]; 3, pp. 101-165 [1807]; 4, pp. 1-30 [1807]; 5, pp. 1-38 [1808]; 6, pp. 1-38 [1808]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43301237 [details] 

original description (of Agathina J. B. Férussac, 1807) Férussac, J. B. L. d'Audebard de & Férussac, A. E. J. P. F. d'Audebard de. (1807). <i>Essai d'une méthode conchyliologique appliquée aux Mollusques fluviatiles et terrestres d'après la considération de l'animal et de son test. Nouvelle édition augmentée d'une synonymie des espèces les plus remarquables, d'une table de concordance systématique de celles qui ont été décrites par Géoffroy, Poiret et Draparnaud, avec Müller et Linné, et terminée par un catalogue d'espèces observées en divers lieux de la France.</i> Paris: Delance. xvi + 142 pp. [between 23 September and 31 December]. , available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PPN=PPN614791812&DMDID=&LOGID=LOG_0002&PHYSID=PHYS_0006
page(s): 49 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Euachatina Shuttleworth, 1856) Shuttleworth, R. J. (1856). Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss der Mollusken. <em>Notitiae Malacologicae.</em> 1: 1-90, pls 1-9., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11061266
page(s): 33 [details] 

original description (of Parachatina Bourguignat, 1890) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1890). Mollusques de l'Afrique équatoriale de Moguedouchou à Bagamoyo et de Bagamoyo au Tanganika. 1-229, pls 1-8. Book dated 1889, publication date 1890., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12909251
page(s): 73 [details] 

original description (of Serpaea Bourguignat, 1890) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1890). Mollusques de l'Afrique équatoriale de Moguedouchou à Bagamoyo et de Bagamoyo au Tanganika. 1-229, pls 1-8. Book dated 1889, publication date 1890., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12909251
page(s): 74, 85. [details] 

 
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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Achatina) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Oncaea) (from synonym Oncaea Gistel, 1848)
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