Aegista
| Aegista | |
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| Two live individuals of Aegista tokyoensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Bradybaeninae |
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| Genus: | Aegista Albers, 1850 |
| Type species | |
| Helix chinensis Philippi, 1845
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Aegista is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae.[1]
Anatomy[]
Species within this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.
Distribution[]
This genus of snails is distributed throughout from Southeast Asia to temperate East Asia.
Species[]
Species within the genus Aegista include:
- (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900)
- Aegista diversifamilia
- Kuroda & Habe, 1951
- (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900)
- Aegista inexpectata
- Aegista intonsa
- Aegista mackensii (Chinese:台湾盾蜗牛): synonym of Plectotropis mackensii (Adams & Reeve, 1850)
- Aegista subchinensis
- Aegista tokyoensis
- Aegista vulgivaga
References[]
- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Aegista Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=874976 on 2020-05-07
- List of species at: [1]
- Taxonomy at: [2]
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
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