Archachatina species kept in captivity

[rosanna123]

i would like to know if any of these species are kept in captivity and if yes could anyone give me any infomation on them:
archachatina bequaerti
archachatina bicarinata
archachatina crawfordi
archachatina gaboonensis
archachatina knorrii
archachatina limitanea
archachatina machachensis
archachatina marinae
archachatina montistempli
archachatina omissa
archachatina purpurea
archachatina semidecussata
archachatina ustulata
archachatina vestita
archachatina zuluensis
archachatina burnupi
archachatina natalensis
archachatina neumanni
archachatina pentheri
archachatina pfeifferi
archachatina saskai
archachatina simplex
archachatina transuaalensis
archachatina buylearti


thanks in advance

*Renamed. - CroSSLeSS*

[Paul]

Some of those species are no longer recognised - for example burnupi is a form of dimidiata.

Achatina dimidiata doesn't exist at all. Achatina monochromatica is also obsolete, it being a variant of Achatina achatina.

Those lists look pretty old.

Andreas Leiß and myself are trying to compile a up-to-date that take all the changes we've heard about into consideration, hopefully including all the new genera like Lissachatina, Cochlitoma etc. It's a huge job, and a lot of the information is probably unobtainable but we're currently trying to make sense of it. It'll never be perfect but some of the lists floating around are way off from what we know now.

Out of your lists, I've seen evidence that the following have been kept in captivity: Archachatina purpurea, Achatina zanzibarica, Achatina monochromatica (ie. Achatina achatina var. monochromatica), Achatina smithii (but it was never confirmed they were that species, unless something came to light in the past few years that I didn't know about - I always suspected they were immaculata). I have no idea whether these are still kept in captivity.

[rosanna123]

ok thank you, i found a thew lists earlier and combined them, i have other generas to add but i thought i would leave it at these two lists for now, if any of these are in captivity i would also like to know if anyone has any for sale (i dought it but worth a try)