Aegista squarrosa

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Aegista squarrosa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Aegista
Species:
A. squarrosa
Binomial name
Aegista squarrosa
(A. Gould, 1859)
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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]

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Subspecies

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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 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. PD-icon.svg 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.


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