Aegista squarrosa

Aegista squarrosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Camaenidae
Genus:	Aegista
Species:	A. squarrosa
Binomial name
Aegista squarrosa (A. Gould, 1859)
Synonyms [1]
Aegista (Aegista) squarrosa(A. Gould, 1859) (no subgenera are recognized) Helix squarrosaA. Gould, 1859 (original combination)

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

Subspecies

• Aegista squarrosa squarrosa(A. Gould, 1859)
• Aegista squarrosa tokunoshimana(Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904)

Description

(Original description in Latin) The shell is planorboid and somewhat squarish, with a coloration that is ochreous-corneous and paler on the underside. It has a convex shape and a broad umbilicus. There are six whorls that are convex and subangular at the periphery. The aperture is small, narrow, and lunate, with a simple peristome that is reflexed towards the columella. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs on the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, ^[1] and Korea. ^[3]

References

1. WoRMS. "Aegista squarrosa (A. Gould, 1859)". World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 22 May 2024.
2. Gould, A. A. (1859). Descriptions of shells collected by the North Pacific Exploring Expedition. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 6: 422–426. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
3. Kimura, K.; Chiba, S.; Pak, J. H. (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.

• Minato, H. (1988). A systematic and bibliographic list of the Japanese land snails. H. Minato, Shirahama, 294 pp., 7 pls.