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Aegista squarrosa

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Species of gastropod

Aegista squarrosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Aegista
Species: A. squarrosa
Binomial name
Aegista squarrosa
(A. Gould, 1859)
Synonyms
  • Aegista (Aegista) squarrosa (A. Gould, 1859) (no subgenera are recognized)
  • Helix squarrosa A. Gould, 1859 (original combination)

Aegista squarrosa is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Camaenidae.

Subspecies
  • Aegista squarrosa squarrosa (A. Gould, 1859)
  • Aegista squarrosa tokunoshimana (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904)

Description

(Original description in Latin) The shell is planorboid and somewhat squarish, with a coloration that is ochreous-corneous and paler on the underside. It has a convex shape and a broad umbilicus. There are six whorls that are convex and subangular at the periphery. The aperture is small, narrow, and lunate, with a simple peristome that is reflexed towards the columella.

Distribution

This species occurs on the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and Korea.

References

  1. ^ WoRMS. "Aegista squarrosa (A. Gould, 1859)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  2. Gould, A. A. (1859). Descriptions of shells collected by the North Pacific Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 6: 422–426. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. Kimura, K.; Chiba, S.; Pak, J. H. (2023). "Molecular investigation on diversity of the land snail genus Aegista (Gastropoda, Camaenidae) in South Korea". Biodiversity Data Journal. 11: e96800. doi:10.3897/BDJ.11.e96800. PMC 10848476. PMID 38327297.
  • Minato, H. (1988). A systematic and bibliographic list of the Japanese land snails. H. Minato, Shirahama, 294 pp., 7 pls.
Taxon identifiers
Aegista squarrosa


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