Giant West African Snail (Archachatina marginata) {!--아프리카왕달팽이--> African Land Snail
Gastropoda > Stylommatophora > Achatinidae
Archachatina marginata ovum (Pfeiffer, 1858)
Photographer: Yuri Yashin, achatina.ru
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The giant West African snail or banana rasp snail (Archachatina marginata) is a species of air-breathing tropical land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae. This species occurs in Western Africa: Cameroon through Democratic Republic of the Congo, and can be found in the Caribbean, in Martinique.
