shell, Achatina linterae (mollusc: shell)
Type SpecimensDescriptions
Holotype of Sowerby’s Achatina linterae from Miss Linter’s collection. Writing on shell states Cape of Good Hope, type description states Port Elizabeth. Shell matches all other elements of description and figure. Sowerby, G. B. 1890. Descriptions of thirteen new species of land shells, with notes on Bulimus fulminans. . Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1889. 577-582 [Original Description]
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