Lignus
Shell of Lignus cailleanus (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Achatinina
Superfamily:	Achatinoidea
Family:	Achatinidae
Genus:	Lignus Gray, 1834
Type species
Lignus tenuis Gray, 1834
Species
See text
Synonyms[1]
Perideris Shuttleworth, 1856 (primary homonym of Perideris Brandt, 1835 [Echinodermata].) Pseudotrochus Mörch, 1852

Lignus is a genus of air-breathing tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Achatininae of the family Achatinidae.^[1]

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.

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• 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. [1852]; Fasc. 2, Acephala, Annulata, Cirripedia, Echinodermata, 74 [+2] pp. [1853]. Hafniae [Copenhagen]: L. Klein.
• Shuttleworth, R. J. (1856). Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss der Mollusken. Notitiae Malacologicae. 1: 1-90, pls 1-9