Achatina ampullacea O. Boettger, 1910

Rapalai, Boikhutso Lerato, 2024, An annotated checklist of molluscs recorded from Botswana, Indago: Investigating nature and humanity in Africa (Oxford, England) 41 (10), pp. 15-44 : 27

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scientific name	Achatina ampullacea O. Boettger, 1910
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38. Achatina ampullacea O. Boettger, 1910 View in CoL

Distribution and year: Dobe, near Aha hills 1965 (van Bruggen 1966 a); banks of Epukiro-Omuramba, approx. 22°S, 15 km from Komeduve, south of Lake Ngami 1965 ( Connolly 1939; NMSA 2023).

Geographic range: Botswana, Namibia.

Habitat: Terrestrial.

Notes: The species is possibly better acclimatized to the semi-arid regions of south-western Africa (van Bruggen 1969).

Type locality: The edge of the Epukiro-Omuramba , 15 km from Komeduve in the southern part of Lake Ngami in the Kalahari, Namibia ( Boettger 1910) .

Sources: Connolly (1912: 191; 1939: 317); van Bruggen (1966 a: 107).

Conservation status: Not Evaluated.