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Aegista tokyoensis

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Aegista tokyoensis
Shell of Aegista tokyoensis (from the Koishikawa Botanical Garden, Tokyo)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Aegista
Species:
A. tokyoensis
Binomial name
Aegista tokyoensis
Sorita, 1980
Synonyms[1]

Aegista (Aegista) tokyoensis Sorita, 1980 (no subgenera are recognized)

Aegista tokyoensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae. [1]

Subspecies: Aegista tokyoensis choshiensis Sakurai & Sorita, 1982

Distribution

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This snail occurs in Japan.

References

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  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Aegista tokyoensis Sorita, 1980. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1332128 on 2020-05-07
  • Sorita, E. (1980). A New Species of the Genus Aegista (s. s.) from the Koishikawa Botanical Garden, Tokyo. Venus (Japanese Journal of Malacology). 39(3): 142-147.
  • Minato, H. (1988). A systematic and bibliographic list of the Japanese land snails. H. Minato, Shirahama, 294 pp., 7 pls