Genus Lissachatina Bequaert, 1950

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• Lissachatina Bequaert, J.C. 1950. Studies in the Achatininae, a group of African land snails. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 105: 1-216 [136] [as a subgenus of Achatina].

  Type species:

   Achatina fulica Bowdich, 1822 by original designation.

Introduction

In studying the phylogenetic position of Achatina (Lissachatina) fulica within the Achatinoidea and the Achatinidae using molecular and morphological analysis, Fontanella (2010) found substantial differences between the two taxa and felt there was no basis for including Lissachatina within Achatina, and that it should be treated as a distinct genus. This is the arrangement widely followed today.

Distribution

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Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

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