• Source: Acavus

Acavus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Acavidae.
They belongs to group of tree snails that inhabited the ancient continent of Gondwana over 150 million years ago.
These beautiful tree snails are endemic to Sri Lanka. It is present a large intraspecific polymorphism, with the development of various geographical subspecies (among them Acavus phoenix phoenix and Acavus phoenix castaneus).




Species


Acavus haemastoma (Linnaeus, 1758)
Acavus phoenix Pfeiffer, 1854
Acavus superbus Pfeiffer, 1850




References


B. Hausdorfi and Kalika K. Pereira - REVISION OF THE GENUS ACAVUS FROM SRI LANKA (GASTROPODA: ACAVIDAE)
Natural History Museum




External links


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• MV Acavus
• Acavus
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• Acavus haemastoma
• Acavus superbus
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