{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Speciesbox | name = Giant Land Snail | image = Acavus phoenix 190420189.jpg | taxon = Acavus phoenix | authority = Pfeiffer, 1854 }}

'''''Acavus phoenix''''', the '''giant land snail''', is a species of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Acavidae.

==Taxonomy== There are two subspecies recognized:<ref>{{cite web | url=http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/66/2/217.abstract | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115214717/http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/66/2/217.abstract | url-status=dead | archive-date=15 November 2011 | title=REVISION OF THE GENUS ACAVUS FROM SRI LANKA (GASTROPODA: ACAVIDAE) | publisher=Journal of Molluscan Studies | accessdate=18 October 2016}}</ref>

*''Acavus phoenix phoenix'' *''Acavus phoenix castaneus''

==Description== ''Acavus phoenix'' is the most common ''Acavus'' species on the island. Shell about 60mm in diameter<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_chafer/6904062976 | title=Giant Land Snail (Acavus phoenix) | date=17 March 2012 | publisher=flickr | accessdate=18 October 2016}}</ref> and is rose colored and body black colored.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ybasrilanka.org/2011/01/land-snails-of-sri-lanka.html | title=Land Snails of Sri Lanka | publisher=Young Biologists' Association Sri Lanka | accessdate=18 October 2016 | archive-date=16 February 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200216015611/http://www.ybasrilanka.org/2011/01/land-snails-of-sri-lanka.html | url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Distribution and habitat== This species is endemic to Sri Lanka. It is confined to wet zone of the country. thumb|Acavus phoenix Habitat Map

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==External links== *[http://journals.sjp.ac.lk/index.php/fesympo/article/view/1887 Population Size, Plant Occupancy and Threats to Acavus]

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Category:Acavidae Category:Gastropods described in 1854 Category:Gastropods of Sri Lanka Category:Taxa named by Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer

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