Limicolaria martensiana is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinidae.
The specific name martensiana is in honor of German zoologist Eduard von Martens.
Distribution This species occurs in Africa, in the following countries: TanzaniaWronski T. & Hausdorf B. (2010). "Diversity and body-size patterns of land snails in rain forests in Uganda". Journal of Molluscan Studies 76(1): 87-100. . Kenya Uganda
Description
This species was originally discovered and described by the British malacologist Edgar Albert Smith in 1880. Smith's original text (the type description) reads as follows:
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