Aegista carinata

Aegista carinata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Aegista
Species:
A. carinata
Binomial name
Aegista carinata
(Gude, 1901)
Synonyms[1]
  • Trishoplita carinata Gude, 1901 superseded combination
  • Trishoplita goodwinii var. carinata Gude, 1901 superseded combination (basionym)

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

Descriprtion

It is more depressed than Trishoplita goodwinii (E. A. Smith, 1876) and distinctly keeled at the periphery.[2]

Distribution and habitat

This shell occurs on Shikoku Island, Japan.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c WoRMS. "Aegista carinata (Gude, 1901)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 26 May 2024. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ Gude, G.K. (1901). A third report on helicoid land-shells from Japan and the Loo-Choo Islands. Vol. v.4 (1900-1901). London: Malacological Society of London. pp. 191–200.
  • Substantial incongruence among the morphology, taxonomy, and molecular phylogeny of the land snails Aegista, Landouria, Trishoplita, and Pseudobuliminus (Pulmonata: Bradybaenidae) occurring in East Asia; Hirano, T., Kameda, Y., Kimura, K. and Chiba, S. - Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 70C, 171-181 (2013)


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