Aegista
Aegista | |
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Aegista tokyoensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Camaenidae |
Subfamily: | Bradybaeninae |
Tribe: | Aegistini |
Genus: | Aegista Albers, 1850 |
Type species | |
Helix chinensis Philippi, 1845
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Aegista is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae.[1]
Anatomy[edit]
Species within this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.
Description[edit]
The thin shell is depressed and widely umbilicated. The shell is uniform corneous. The shell is strongly sculptured. The periphery is rounded, or obtusely angulated. The body whorl is descending in front. The peristome is slightly expanded, a little thickened within. [2]
Distribution[edit]
This genus of snails is distributed throughout from Southeast Asia to temperate East Asia.
Species[edit]
Species within the genus Aegista include:
- Aegista accrescens (Heude, 1882)
- Aegista araneaetela (P.M. Heude, 1885)
- Aegista aubryana (Heude, 1882)
- Aegista awajiensis (Gude, 1900)
- Aegista baphica (Mabille, 1888)
- Aegista bonnieri (H. Fischer, 1898)
- Aegista caerulea Kuroda & T. Habe, 1960
- Aegista calcicola (Masuda & Habe, 1989)
- Aegista carinata (Gude, 1901)
- Aegista catostoma (W. T. Blanford, 1869)
- Aegista celsa (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1908)
- Aegista chejuensis (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1908)
- Aegista chinensis (R. A. Philippi, 1845)
- Aegista chondroderma (O.F. von Möllendorff, 1900)
- Aegista chosenica (Pilsbry, 1927)
- Aegista congener Preston, 1914
- Aegista coudeini (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900)
- Aegista crassiuscula (E. A. Smith, 1896)
- Aegista delectabilis (P. Ehrmann, 1900)
- Aegista diplogramme [citation needed]
- Aegista diversa Kuroda & Miyanaga, 1936
- Aegista diversifamilia C.-W. Huang, Y.-C. Lee, S.-M. Lin & W.-L. Wu, 2014
- Aegista fausta Kuroda & Habe, 1951
- Aegista fauveli (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900)
- Aegista friedeliana (E. von Martens, 1864)
- Aegista fulgens [citation needed]
- Aegista fulvicans (H. Adams, 1866)
- Aegista furtiva (Heude, 1885)
- Aegista gerlachi E.C. Von Martens, 1881
- Aegista gitaena (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1908)
- Aegista gottschei (Möllendorff, 1887)
- Aegista granti (L. Pfeiffer, 1865)
- Aegista hachijoensis [citation needed]
- Aegista hakusanensis M. Azuma & Y. Azuma, 1982
- Aegista hebes (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1905)
- Aegista herpestes (P.M. Heude, 1885)
- Aegista hiroshifukudai Hirano, Kameda & Chiba, 2016
- Aegista huberorum Thach, 2023
- Aegista hupeana (Gredler, 1886)
- Aegista impexa (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1905)
- Aegista inermis [citation needed]
- Aegista inornata (H.A. Pilsbry, 1901)
- Aegista inrinensis (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1905)
- Aegista intonsa (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1902)
- Aegista kanmuriyamensis M. Azuma & Y. Azuma, 1982
- Aegista kantori Thach & F. Huber, 2021
- Aegista kobensis (Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1890) (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym, based on unavailable original name; gotoensis appears to be the earliest available name)
- Aegista kunimiensis M. Azuma & Y. Azuma, 1982
- Aegista laoyelingensis Zhang, 1993
- Aegista lasia (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1909)
- Aegista laurentii (Gredler, 1887)
- Aegista lautsi (Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1890)
- Aegista martensiana (H.A. Pilsbry, 1901)
- Aegista mayasana (M. Azuma, 1969)
- Aegista megachila Möllendorff, 1899
- Aegista mimula (H.A. Pilsbry, 1901)
- Aegista minima (Pilsbry, 1902)
- Aegista mitanensis (Godwin-Austen, 1889)
- Aegista nikkoensis Kuroda, 1982
- Aegista oculus (L. Pfeiffer, 1850)
- Aegista oldhami (Benson, 1859)
- Aegista omma (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904)
- Aegista onae Thach & F. Huber, 2021
- Aegista packhaensis Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1909)
- Aegista permellita (Heude, 1886)
- Aegista perplexa (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1905)
- Aegista phayrei (Theobald, 1859)
- Aegista platyomphala (Möllendorff, 1885)
- Aegista proba (A. Adams, 1868)
- Aegista proxima (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1909)
- Aegista pseudopapuina (Möllendorff, 1901)
- Aegista pseudotrochula (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1909)
- Aegista pygmaea Kuroda & Kawamoto, 1956
- Aegista pyramidata (Pilsbry, 1927)
- Aegista radleyi [citation needed]
- Aegista serpestes (Heude, 1890)
- Aegista squarrosa (A. Gould, 1859)
- Aegista stenomphala Minato, 2003
- Aegista shikokuensis [citation needed]
- Aegista stephanieclarkae Thach & F. Huber, 2021
- Aegista subchinensis (Möllendorff, 1884)
- Aegista subinflexa (Mabille, 1889)
- Aegista tadai Minato, 1983
- Aegista taiwanica Kuroda, 1941
- Aegista tapeina (W. H. Benson, 1836)
- Aegista tenerrima Möllendorff, 1899
- Aegista tenuissima (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1908)
- Aegista tokunoshimana [citation needed]
- Aegista tokyoensis Sorita, 1980
- Aegista trichotropis (L. Pfeiffer, 1850)
- Aegista tumida (Gude, 1901)
- Aegista vermis (Reeve, 1852)
- Aegista visayana [citation needed]
- Aegista vulgivaga(P.B. Schmacker & O. Böttger, 1890)
Synonyms[edit]
- Aegista aemula (Gude, 1900): synonym of Plectotropis aemula (Gude, 1900)
- Aegista coeni Preston, 1914: synonym of Landouria coeni (Preston, 1914) (original combination)
- Aegista conomphala Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1903: synonym of Plectotropis conomphala Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1903
- Aegista elegantissima (L. Pfeiffer, 1849) : synonym of Plectotropis elegantissima (L. Pfeiffer, 1849)
- Aegista emma (L. Pfeiffer, 1863): synonym of Ganesella emma (L. Pfeiffer, 1863) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Aegista grumulus Godwin-Austen, 1891: synonym of Landouria grumulus (Godwin-Austen, 1891)
- Aegista horrida (Pilsbry, 1900): synonym of Plectotropis horrida (Pilsbry, 1900)
- Aegista inexpectata Kuroda & Minato, 1977: synonym of Plectotropis inexpectata (Kuroda & Minato, 1977)
- Aegista kiusiuensis (Pilsbry, 1900): synonym of Plectotropis kiusiuensis (Pilsbry, 1900)
- Aegista lepidophora (Gude, 1900): synonym of Plectotropis lepidophora (Gude, 1900)
- Aegista mackensii (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850) : synonym of Plectotropis mackensii (Adams & Reeve, 1850)
- Aegista mesasiana (Lindholm, 1927): synonym of Paedhoplita lentina (E. von Martens, 1885) (junior subjective synonym)
- Aegista marginata (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1903): synonym of Plectotropis marginata (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1903)
- Aegista omiensis (Pilsbry, 1901): synonym of Plectotropis omiensis (Pilsbry, 1902)
- Aegista pannosa (Pilsbry, 1902): synonym of Plectotropis pannosa (Pilsbry, 1902)
- Aegista scepasma (Reeve, 1854): synonym of Plectotropis scepasma (Reeve, 1854)
- Aegista tenella (L. Pfeiffer, 1862) : synonym of Chloritis tenella (L. Pfeiffer, 1862) (subsequent combination)
- Aegista trochula (A. Adams, 1868): synonym of Neoaegista trochula (A. Adams, 1868)
- Taxon inquirendum
- Aegista shermani L. Pfeiffer, 1866 sensu Huang et al. (2014) taxon inquirendum, based on a misidentification; not Helix shermani L. Pfeiffer, 1866)
References[edit]
- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Aegista Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=874976 on 2020-05-07
- ^ G.W. Tryon, Manual of conchology. Second series: Pulmonata vol. II This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- List of species at: [1]
- Taxonomy at: [2]
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
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