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Aegista gottschei

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Aegista gottschei
Shell of Aegista gottschei (holotype)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Aegista
Species:
A. gottschei
Binomial name
Aegista gottschei
(Möllendorff, 1887)
Synonyms[1]
  • Aegista gottschei kongoensis Kuroda & Miyanaga, 1939 (junior synonym)
  • Eulota (Aegista) gottschei (Möllendorff, 1887)
  • Eulota (Aegista) mimula peninsularis Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1909 (junior synonym)
  • Helix (Aegista) gottschei Möllendorff, 1887 (original combination)

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)

Description

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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]

Distribution

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This species occurs in Korea.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Aegista gottschei (Möllendorff, 1887)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 14 May 2024.
  2. ^ G.W. Tryon, Manual of conchology. Second series: Pulmonata vol. IIPublic Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ 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.
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