Lignus

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Lignus
Shell of Lignus cailleanus (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Achatinina
Superfamily: Achatinoidea
Family: Achatinidae
Genus: Lignus
Gray, 1834
Type species
Lignus tenuis Gray, 1834
Species

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Synonyms[1]
  • Perideris Shuttleworth, 1856 (primary homonym of Perideris Brandt, 1835 [Echinodermata].)
  • Pseudotrochus Mörch, 1852

Lignus is a genus of air-breathing tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Achatininae of the family Achatinidae.[1]

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