marginata saotomensis?

[Kevin]

Is there a species called Archachatina marginata saotomensis? a few times now Ive seen shells that look like very colourful suturalis with that name, on ebay and shell auction sites, at the moment I cant find any links with the name though, ive tried searching for it, and cant find any reference whether its an actual species or not.

[gabi]

I don´t think, they exist. Andreas Leiss sent me a while ago a drawn pic of all know marginata species. They are not on this link and pic´s.

I am e-mailing you next minutes some pic´s of my little pretty colourful suturalis.

[gabi]

Pic´s of colourful suturalis. I only found this young one (from this summer) the other 2 play hide-and-seek and couldn´t find them. One of the not-found-ones has a extremely red butt and the stripes are orangey-grenish-dark

[gabi]

Could it be, that those saotomensis just suturalis from the country Sao tomee?

[Kevin]

Very nice snail

Do you still have the drawing with all the marginata variants?

I cant find any pictures listed as saotomensis at the moment, the auctions and ebay links with them have finished, I found this though, which shows a Sao Tome and Principe marginata, i imagine the places where I seen saotomensis would list it as saotomensis?

www.malakos.com/Journal/imageplates/saotomehall1.html

gabi said:

Could it be, that those saotomensis just suturalis from the country Sao tomee?

yeah, i was thinking that, maybe all marginata from Sao Tome is listed by some places as saotomensis?

[Deleted]

wow that's a lovely snail Gabi ;D


I thought marginata suturalis were from sao tome. so, maybe saotomensis is another name for suturalis?

[Kevin]

lotsofsnails said:

so, maybe saotomensis is another name for suturalis?

I'd think that some places give the name saotomensis to suturalis found in Sao Tome.

[LisaLQ]

Beautiful suturalis, Gabi

I love my suturalis - cant wait for them to breed ;D

[gabi]

Yes, Lisa, those are really beautiful snailies. I gave up in spring on my suturalis and sold them all, because the wildcaughts, I had have not done well in my home. They had some batches of eggs, but there wasn´t hatching anything.

Now I got some weeks those nice ones for free and I couldn´t resist and those are now doing really great (as now really all my archachatina do). They are growing well and eat like little piglets.