Columnella of Degneri

[gabi]

What colour has the columnella of an Archachatine Degneri and does someone have a pic of an degneri?

TIA!

[Evelyn]

these pics are from achatinidae.com

[Kevin]

Arent they the Archachatina buylaerti pics from achatinidae.com?
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EDIT

Heres a degneri shell

[Deleted]

Hi Gabi,

degneri has a purple columella,



this is a picture of my degneri (left) and my marginata ovum (right) sorry its not very clear but you can see the purple tinge.

[gabi]

Thanks Evelyn, Kevin and Mike!

I got this 4 snailies today. They are in worst condition.
Katherine (from Cybersnails) saved them about 2 weeks ago, but had no space, so I got them. Could some of you take a look on them in the German forum?
Please help me, ID them. I have suggested that the smaller ones with the pink columnella) are suturalis and the bigger ones are ovum (apricot columnella)

83217.forum.onetwomax.de/topic=101777045540&search=

[Deleted]

yes the snails in the first 4 pictures are margie suturalis and the next 3 pictures are ovum. well done for taking them ;D i hope you give them a good home

[gabi]

You can be sure, they have a good home now.

Currently they are in a quarantaine-tank, but will soon move in an 120cm tank to some other margies from Anjie.

I already own so much snailies (and a lot of them are saved ones). Taking care of now 12 tanks isn´t easy, but do my best. ;D But that are the worst looking ever, I got.
How can people do somthing like that to animals?

[Deleted]

wow 12 tanks thats a lot. how many snails do u have? rehoming unwanted snails is very kind, especially when you have so many. i dont know how people can be so cruel, i guess theyre just too lazy to care for them properly.

[gabi]

I have

-a tank full of babies (mainly fulica and thanks to Melly, smithii (all together are around 20)
- a tank with young fulica, an iredalei, 2 reti-babies, and 4 baby-fulica-rodatzii
- a tank with the lignus
- a tank with some very small babies (probably to fulica´s) from a petshop
- a tank with 3 wc Tigers and 3 Margies from Anjie
- a huge tank with 4 adult fulicas and 2 iredalei (there will live the babies then too, when big enough)
- a tank with 2 young reti, 3 immaculata and another Iredalei
- a tank with three small panthera
- a tank with an adult (to small grown) Rodatzii, 2 young Reti,
- a tank with 4 baby-margies
- a tank with the 4 bad-condition-Margies

I have never counted them. ;D I guess that are around 70 or 80?
I love this hobby. It´s so great to come down after a day with 5 kids.

[gabi]

Oh, I have forgotten my tank with the adult/semi-adult dimidiata`s! ;D ;D

[Evelyn]

kevin
Yes the pics are from achatinidae.com

[Kevin]

evelyn said:

kevin
Yes the pics are from achatinidae.com

Arent they Archachatina buylaerti though, not Archachatina degneri?

There is a picture listed as degneri on the site, on this page

achatinidae.com/Allgemeines/Gattungen/Archachatina/Archa__ventricosa/archa__ventricosa.html



the top one.

[Evelyn]

Degneri=buylaerti

[Kevin]

evelyn said:

Degneri=buylaerti

I didnt know that.

[sezzy5889]

so degneri, buylaerti and putlepti are all the same then???

[Deleted]

why would degneri and buylaerti be the same thing if they have different names? i think buylaerti look slightly different to degneri.

yes sarah i think puylaepti and buylaerti are the same (except puylaepti is an albino version)

[Kevin]

evelyn said:

Degneri=buylaerti

This page seems to suggest that they are two different species, as they are listed seperatly

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achatinidae
"
A. buylaerti
A. degneri Bequaert & Clench, 1936 : Ghana"

[Deleted]

let me see...oh yes buylaerti have more shallow sutures, and slightly different skin colour. although they are very similar and from the same region.