Achatina randabeli Bourguignat, 1889

Muratov, Igor V., 2010, Terrestrial molluscs of Cabo Delgado and adjacent inland areas of north-eastern Mozambique, African Invertebrates 51 (2), pp. 255-255 : 267

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scientific name	Achatina randabeli Bourguignat, 1889
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Achatina randabeli Bourguignat, 1889 View in CoL

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Achatina randabeli: Bourguignat 1889: 84 View in CoL , pl. 5, fig. 6 (Tabora, Ounyanyembé; 55× 28 mm).

A rather uncommon species, previously known only from the type locality in central Tanzania. Found at five stations inland and two station on Cabo Delgado. One of the smaller species of Achatina . The largest shell from north-eastern Mozambique is 51× 26 mm. Achatina arctespirata (57× 32 mm) described by Bourguignat (1889: 83, pl. 5, fig. 7) from the southern region of Tanganyika is probably a synonym based on a freak specimen. Both species were considered subspecies of the Tanzanian A. craveni Smith, 1881 (type: 81× 37 mm) by Bequaert (1950: 50). Differs from all other species of the genus by the narrow-conical apex with straight outlines. Can easily be separated from similar sized species of Limicolaria by the strongly truncated columella.

References

BEQUAERT, J. 1950. Studies in the Achatinidae, a group of African land snails. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, in Cambridge 105 (1): 3 - 216.

BOURGUIGNAT, J. R. 1889. Mollusques de l'Afrique equatoriale: de Moguedouchou a Bagamoyo et de Bagamoyo au Tanganika. Paris: Dumoulin et Cie.

SMITH, E. A. 1881. On a collection of shells from lakes Tanganyika and Nyassa and other localities in East Africa. Proceedings of the scientific meetings of the Zoological Society of London 49 (2): 276 - 300.