Lignus is a genus of air-breathing tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Achatininae of the family Achatinidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lignus Gray, 1834. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995605 on 2021-05-08
Species Lignus alabaster (Rang, 1831) Lignus batesi (Preston, 1909) Lignus belli (Germain, 1908) Lignus cailleanus (Morelet, 1848) Lignus efulensis (Preston, 1909) Lignus interstinctus (Gould, 1843) Lignus mucidus (Gould, 1850) Lignus solimanus (Morelet, 1848) Lignus tenuis Gray, 1834 Lignus verdieri (Chaper, 1885) Lignus zegzeg (Morelet, 1848) Taxon inquirendum Lignus turbinatus (I. Lea, 1841)
References
Morelet, A., 1848 Revue zoologique. Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
External links
Gray, J. E. (1834). Land and freshwater shells hitherto undescribed. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1834) 2: 63-68 Mörch, O. A. L. (1852-1853). Catalogus conchyliorum quae reliquit D. Alphonso d'Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi, Regis Daniae Cubiculariorum Princeps, Ordinis Dannebrogici in Prima Classe & Ordinis Caroli Tertii Eques. Fasc. 1, Cephalophora, 170 pp. ; Fasc. 2, Acephala, Annulata, Cirripedia, Echinodermata, 74 [+2] pp. . Hafniae [Copenhagen]: L. Klein. Shuttleworth, R. J. (1856). Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss der Mollusken. Notitiae Malacologicae. 1: 1-90, pls 1-9