Lissachatina is a genus of air-breathing tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Achatininae of the family Achatinidae.
The molecular data clearly shows that Lissachatina consistently clusters as a monophyletic entity separate from Achatina and Fontanilla stated that there is no basis for continuing to employ Lissachatina as a subgenus of Achatina and that it should be regarded as a genus in its own right.
Species
- Lissachatina albopicta <small>(E. A. Smith, 1878)</small>
- Lissachatina allisa <small>(L. Reeve, 1849)</small>
- Lissachatina bloyeti <small>(Bourguignat, 1890)</small>
- Lissachatina capelloi <small>(Furtado, 1886)</small>
- Lissachatina eleanorae <small>(Mead, 1995)</small>
- Lissachatina fulica <small>(Bowdich, 1822)</small>
- Lissachatina glaucina <small>(E. A. Smith, 1899)</small>
- Lissachatina glutinosa <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1854)</small>
- Lissachatina immaculata <small>(Lamarck, 1822)</small>
- Lissachatina johnstoni <small>(E. A. Smith, 1899)</small>
- Lissachatina kilimae <small>(Dautzenberg, 1908)</small>
- Lissachatina lactea <small>(L. Reeve, 1842)</small>
- Lissachatina loveridgei <small>(Clench & Archer, 1930)</small>
- Lissachatina reticulata <small>(L. Pfeiffer, 1845)</small>
- Lissachatina zanzibarica <small>(Bourguignat, 1879)</small>
Species brought into synonymy:
- Lissachatina yalaensis <small>(Germain, 1936)</small>: synonym of Oreohomorus connollyi <small>(Odhner, 1932)</small>
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