Aegista carinata
| Aegista carinata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Aegista |
| Species: | A. carinata
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| Binomial name | |
| Aegista carinata (Gude, 1901)
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Aegista carinata is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Camaenidae.[1]
Descriprtion
[edit]It is more depressed than Trishoplita goodwinii (E. A. Smith, 1876) and distinctly keeled at the periphery.[2]
Distribution and habitat
[edit]This shell occurs on Shikoku Island, Japan.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c WoRMS. "Aegista carinata (Gude, 1901)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ 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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