Terrestrial molluscs of Cabo Delgado and adjacent inland areas of north-eastern Mozambique
Author
Muratov, Igor V.
text
African Invertebrates
2010
2010-12-31
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5733/afin.051.0203
journal article
10.5733/afin.051.0203
2305-2562
7913493
Achatina immaculata
Lamarck, 1823
Figs 19
,
59
Achatina immaculata
:
Lamarck 1822: 128
(height
c
.
152 mm
).
A common, widespread eastern African species. Found at five stations inland and at one station on
Cabo Delgado
. Differs from all other species in the area by its large size (shell up to 200×
120 mm
). Fresh shells differ from the similar most common
A. fulica
Bowdich, 1822
(not found in north-eastern
Mozambique
so far) by the pink columellar margin. Juvenile shells are even more common and can easily be separated from all other shells in the region by the large smooth protoconch.