Columna (gastropod)

Columna is a genus of air-breathing tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.

Columna
Lateral view of a shell of Columna leai from São Tomé and Principe, on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Achatinoidea
Family:
Achatinidae
Genus:
Columna

Perry, 1811

Species

Species within the genus Columna include:

  • Columna columna (O.F. Müller, 1774)
  • Columna flammea von Martens
  • Columna hainesi (Pfeiffer, 1852)
  • Columna leai Tryon, 1866

References


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