Aegista awajiensis
| Aegista awajiensis | |
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| Shell of Aegista awajiensis (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Aegista |
| Species: | A. awajiensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Aegista awajiensis (Gude, 1900)
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Aegista awajiensis is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Camaenidae.[1][2]
Distribution and habitat
[edit]This shell occurs on Awaji Island, Japan,[3][2][4] Korea,[5] and in Fiji.[2][6]
Description
[edit]The diameter of the shell is 13.5 mm, its height 8 mm.[4]
The shell is widely and deeply umbilicated, with a conoid and depressed shape and is dark horn-colored. The shell is finely striated. The spire is conical with a prominent apex and an impressed suture. It has six whorls that increase slowly and are slightly convex. The body whorl is rather flattened above, rounded below, bluntly keeled, and very shortly deflected in front. The aperture is oblique and ovate, with a shining white peristome that is strongly thickened and shortly reflected. The margins approach and are united by a thin callus, with the columellar margin being subvertical. The umbilicus is wide and perspective.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b MolluscaBase. "Aegista awajiensis (Gude, 1900)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
- ^ a b c "Aegista awajiensis (Gude, 1900)". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
- ^ Azuma, Masao & Azuma, Yoshio (1982). "日本産オオベソマイマイ属3新種" [Descriptions of three new species of the genus Aegista Albers, 1850 (Bradybaenidae) from Japan]. Venus. 41 (3): 167–174.
- ^ a b c Gude, G. K. (1900). Notes on a collection of helicoid land shells from Japan and the Loo-Choo islands, with descriptions of two new species of Helicidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society London. 4(1): 8-23
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.
- ^ "Aegista awajiensis". Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
- Minato, H. (1988). A systematic and bibliographic list of the Japanese land snails. H. Minato, Shirahama, 294 pp., 7 pls.
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