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''Achatina vassei'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae, the giant African snails. Of ''‘Achatina’ vassei'' only the holotype was known up to 2010.〔 The collector of the type shell, Guillaume Vasse, was a French big game hunter, who spent roughly two years (1904-1907) in central Mozambique with his wife, collecting mammals, birds, insects, molluscs (very few), and plants for the Paris Museum of Natural History.〔 The type specimen is stored in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN Mollusca No. 21490).〔 Another discovery of shells at a second locality was published in 2010.〔 Those shells are stored in the Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, Leiden.〔 There appears to be no other museum or collection that holds material of this species.〔 The systematic position of this species is still unclear because of the lack of anatomical data; this taxon is probably a species with a restricted range centered on the plateau of Central Mozambique.〔 ==Distribution== This species is probably endemic to Central Mozambique.〔 This is an area where little malacological exploration has been carried out.〔 The type locality is "environs d’Andrada", Andrada (18°52’S 32°53’E), Mozambique.〔 It is situated just east of the border with Zimbabwe northeast of Mutare.〔 Another shell has been collected from Gorongosa National Park, Sofala Province in Mozambique and published in 2010.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Achatina vassei」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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