Aegista proba
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Aegista |
| Species: | A. proba
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| Binomial name | |
| Aegista proba (A. Adams, 1868)
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Aegista proba is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Camaenidae.[1]
- Subspecies
- Aegista proba eminens (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904)
- Aegista proba goniosoma (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904)
- Aegista proba goniosomoides Kuroda & Abe, 1980
- Aegista proba mikuriyensis (Pilsbry, 1902)
- Aegista proba mimula (Pilsbry, 1900)
- Aegista proba proba (A. Adams, 1868)
Description[edit]
(Original description in Latin) The reddish-brown shell is orbicular-depressed with a broad and perspective umbilicus. It shows oblique striations. The spirals are barely raised. It has six flat whorls, with the body whorl being obtusely subangulated at the periphery. The aperture is rounded-lunate and very oblique. The peristome is shortly reflexed and regularly arched at the base.[2]
Distribution[edit]
This species occurs in Japan[1] and Korea.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c WoRMS. "Aegista proba (A. Adams, 1868)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
- ^ Adams, A. (1868). On the species of Helicidae found in Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (4) 1: 459-472.
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.
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