Aegista squarrosa | |
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Scientific 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 | |
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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
- ^ WoRMS. "Aegista squarrosa (A. Gould, 1859)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- 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. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- 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 | |
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Aegista squarrosa |
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