| Aegista gottschei | |
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| Shell of Aegista gottschei (holotype) | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Aegista |
| Species: | A. gottschei
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| Binomial name | |
| Aegista gottschei (Möllendorff, 1887)
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| Synonyms [1] | |
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Aegista gottschei is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Camaenidae. [1]
- Subspecies
- Aegista gottschei fusanica (Pilsbry, 1927)
- Aegista gottschei gottschei (Möllendorff, 1887)
The diameter of the shell is 11 mm.
The shell has a wide umbilicus. It shows delicately oblique striae, and has a membranous costulation, with microscopic spiraling lines. The shell presents a brownish corneous hue. Its contains 6-7 whorls, each gently convex, with the body whorl obtusely angulated and minutely deflected forward. The peristome is thin, modestly expanded, and somewhat reflected. [2]
This species occurs in Korea. [3]
- ^ a b "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Aegista gottschei (Möllendorff, 1887)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
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G.W. Tryon, Manual of conchology. Second series: Pulmonata vol. II
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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- ^ Kimura, Kazuki; Chiba, Satoshi; Pak, Jae-Hong (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.
- Kuroda, T. & Miyanaga, M. (1939). New Land Shells from Northern Tyosen (Korea). Venus. 9(2): 66–85.