Achatina smithii Craven, 1881

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 : 28

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scientific name	Achatina smithii Craven, 1881
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42. Achatina smithii Craven, 1881 View in CoL

Distribution and year: Sepopa, on Okavango River, Ngamiland 1965 (van Bruggen 1966 a).

Geographic range: Botswana, Namibia, South Africa.

Habitat: Terrestrial.

Notes: This medium-sized species is endemic to Southern Africa (van Bruggen 1966 a).

Type locality: Lydenburg , Mpumalanga, South Africa ( Craven 1881) .

Source: van Bruggen (1966 a: 107).

Conservation status: Not Evaluated.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Gastropoda
Order	Stylommatophora
Family	Achatinidae
Genus	Achatina

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