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Aegista carinata

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Species of gastropod

Aegista carinata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Aegista
Species: A. carinata
Binomial name
Aegista carinata
(Gude, 1901)
Synonyms
  • Trishoplita carinata Gude, 1901 superseded combination
  • Trishoplita goodwinii var. carinata Gude, 1901 superseded combination (basionym)

Aegista carinata is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Camaenidae.

Descriprtion

It is more depressed than Trishoplita goodwinii (E. A. Smith, 1876) and distinctly keeled at the periphery.

Distribution and habitat

This shell occurs on Shikoku Island, Japan.

References

  1. ^ WoRMS. "Aegista carinata (Gude, 1901)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 26 May 2024. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. Gude, G.K. (1901). A third report on helicoid land-shells from Japan and the Loo-Choo Islands. Vol. v.4 (1900-1901). London: Malacological Society of London. pp. 191–200.
  • Substantial incongruence among the morphology, taxonomy, and molecular phylogeny of the land snails Aegista, Landouria, Trishoplita, and Pseudobuliminus (Pulmonata: Bradybaenidae) occurring in East Asia; Hirano, T., Kameda, Y., Kimura, K. and Chiba, S. - Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 70C, 171-181 (2013)

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