Aegista caerulea

Aegista caerulea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Camaenidae
Genus:	Aegista
Species:	A. caerulea
Binomial name
Aegista caerulea Kuroda & T. Habe, 1960
Synonyms [1]
Aegista (Aegista) caeruleaKuroda & Habe, 1960 (no subgenera are recognized)

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

Distribution and habitat

This shell occurs on the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. ^[1] and Korea ^[2]

References

1. WoRMS. "Aegista caerulea Kuroda & T. Habe, 1960". World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 26 May 2024.
2. Kimura, Kazuki; Chiba, Satoshi; Pak, Jae-Hong (31 January 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 . ISSN   1314-2828. PMC   10848476 . PMID   38327297.

• Kuroda, T. (1960). Okinawa guntosan kairui mokuroku (tosokurui o nozoku). A catalogue of the molluscan fauna of the Okinawa Islands (exclusive of the Cephalopoda). Okinawa, Naha-Shi: Ryukyu University Kyomubu Fukyuka. iv, 106 pp., 3 plates.
• Minato, H. (1988). A systematic and bibliographic list of the Japanese land snails. H. Minato, Shirahama, 294 pp., 7 pls.

External links

• National Library of Medicine, Aegista caerulea: gene sequences