Rank Species | Subfamily Limicolariinae | |
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Similar Limicolaria, Limicolaria flammea, Archachatina bicarinata, Achatina craveni, Achatinidae | ||
Limicolaria martensiana is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae.
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The specific name martensiana is in honor of German zoologist Eduard von Martens.
Distribution
This species occurs in Africa, in the following countries:
Description
This species was originally discovered and described by the British malacologist Edgar Albert Smith in 1880. Smith's original text (the type description) reads as follows:
References
Limicolaria martensiana Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA