Aegista
| Aegista | |
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| Two live individuals of Aegista tokyoensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Bradybaeninae |
| Tribe: | Aegistini |
| Genus: | Aegista Albers, 1850 |
| Type species | |
| Helix chinensis Philippi, 1845
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| Species | |
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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
Species within this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.
Distribution
This genus of snails is distributed throughout from Southeast Asia to temperate East Asia.
Species
Species within the genus Aegista include:
- Aegista accrescens
- Aegista aemula
- Aegista aperta
- Aegista araneaetela
- Aegista aubryana
- Aegista awajiensis
- Aegista bonnieri
- Aegista chinensis
- Aegista chondroderma
- Aegista conomphala
- Aegista coudeini (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900)
- Aegista crassiuscula
- Aegista delectabilis
- Aegista diplogramme
- 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 elegantissima
- Aegista friedeliana
- Aegista fulgens
- Aegista fulvicans
- Aegista gerlachi
- Aegista hachijoensis
- Aegista hakusanensis M. Azuma & Y. Azuma, 1982
- Aegista hebes (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1905)
- Aegista herpestes
- Aegista hiroshifukudai Hirano, Kameda & Chiba, 2016
- Aegista horrida
- Aegista inermis
- Aegista inexpectata
- Aegista inornata
- Aegista inrinensis
- Aegista intonsa
- Aegista kantori Thach & F. Huber, 2021
- Aegista kiusiuensis
- Aegista kobensis
- Aegista kunimiensis M. Azuma & Y. Azuma, 1982
- Aegista laoyelingensis Zhang, 1993
- Aegista lasia (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1909)
- Aegista lautsi (Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1890)
- Aegista laurentii (Gredler, 1887)
- Aegista lepidophora
- Aegista mackensii (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850) : synonym of Plectotropis mackensii (Adams & Reeve, 1850)
- Aegista marginata
- Aegista martensiana
- Aegista mimula
- Aegista minima
- Aegista oculus
- Aegista oldhami (Benson, 1859)
- Aegista omma (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904)
- Aegista onae Thach & F. Huber, 2021
- Aegista omiensis (Pilsbry, 1901): synonym of Plectotropis omiensis (Pilsbry, 1902)
- Aegista packhaensis
- Aegista pannosa
- Aegista permellita
- Aegista perplexa
- Aegista platyomphala
- Aegista radleyi
- Aegista scepasma
- Aegista serpestes
- Aegista squarrosa (A. Gould, 1859)
- Aegista stenomphala Minato, 2003
- Aegista shikokuensis
- Aegista stephanieclarkae Thach & F. Huber, 2021
- Aegista squarrosa
- Aegista subchinensis
- Aegista subinflexa
- Aegista tapeina
- Aegista tokunoshimana
- Aegista tokyoensis
- Aegista trichotropis
- Aegista trochula
- Aegista vermis
- Aegista visayana
- Aegista vulgivaga
References
- ^ 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
- 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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