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Achatina (Ferussacia) gracilis (R. T. Lowe, 1831)
1865009 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1865009)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
- Variety Achatina (Ferussacia) gracilis var. subula R. T. Lowe, 1855 accepted as Amphorella cimensis Waldén, 1983 (unaccepted > junior objective synonym, invalid: junior homonym of Achatina subula L. Pfeiffer, 1839; Amphorella cimensis is a replacement name)
(of Helix (Cochlicopa) gracilis R. T. Lowe, 1831) Lowe, R. T. (1831). Primitiae faunae et florae Maderae et Portus Sancti; sive species quaedam novae vel hactenus minus rite cognitae animalium et plantarum in his insulis degentium breviter descriptae. <em>Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.</em> 4 (1): 1-70, pl. 1-6. Cambridge., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13265840
page(s): 61, pl. 6 fig. 28 [details]
page(s): 61, pl. 6 fig. 28 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Achatina (Ferussacia) gracilis (R. T. Lowe, 1831). Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1865009 on 2026-06-15
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(of Helix (Cochlicopa) gracilis R. T. Lowe, 1831) Lowe, R. T. (1831). Primitiae faunae et florae Maderae et Portus Sancti; sive species quaedam novae vel hactenus minus rite cognitae animalium et plantarum in his insulis degentium breviter descriptae. <em>Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.</em> 4 (1): 1-70, pl. 1-6. Cambridge., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13265840
page(s): 61, pl. 6 fig. 28 [details]
basis of record Lowe, R. T. (1855). Catalogus molluscorum pneumonatorum insularum Maderensium: or a list of all the land and freshwater shells, recent and fossil, of the Madeiran islands: arranged in groups according to their natural affinities; with diagnoses of the groups, and of the new or hitherto imperfectly defined species. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 22 ["1854"]: 161-208 [16 March 1855]; 209-218 [27 March 1855]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30747564
page(s): 200 [details]
page(s): 61, pl. 6 fig. 28 [details]
basis of record Lowe, R. T. (1855). Catalogus molluscorum pneumonatorum insularum Maderensium: or a list of all the land and freshwater shells, recent and fossil, of the Madeiran islands: arranged in groups according to their natural affinities; with diagnoses of the groups, and of the new or hitherto imperfectly defined species. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 22 ["1854"]: 161-208 [16 March 1855]; 209-218 [27 March 1855]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30747564
page(s): 200 [details]
