Aegista

Aegista
	Aegista tokyoensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Camaenidae
Subfamily:	Bradybaeninae
Tribe:	Aegistini
Genus:	Aegista; Albers, 1850
Type species
	Helix chinensis; Philippi, 1845
Synonyms
	Aegista (Aegista) Albers, 1850 (no subgenera are recognized); Eulota (Aegista) Albers, 1850 (unaccepted combination); Helix (Aegista) Albers, 1850;

Aegista is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae.^[1]

Anatomy[edit]

Species within this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.

Description[edit]

The thin shell is depressed and widely umbilicated. The shell is uniform corneous. The shell is strongly sculptured. The periphery is rounded, or obtusely angulated. The body whorl is descending in front. The peristome is slightly expanded, a little thickened within. ^[2]

Distribution[edit]

This genus of snails is distributed throughout from Southeast Asia to temperate East Asia.

Species[edit]

Species within the genus Aegista include:

Aegista accrescens (Heude, 1882)
Aegista araneaetela (P.M. Heude, 1885)
Aegista aubryana (Heude, 1882)
Aegista awajiensis (Gude, 1900)
Aegista baphica (Mabille, 1888)
Aegista bonnieri (H. Fischer, 1898)
Aegista caerulea Kuroda & T. Habe, 1960
Aegista calcicola (Masuda & Habe, 1989)
Aegista carinata (Gude, 1901)
Aegista catostoma (W. T. Blanford, 1869)
Aegista celsa (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1908)
Aegista chejuensis (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1908)
Aegista chinensis (R. A. Philippi, 1845)
Aegista chondroderma (O.F. von Möllendorff, 1900)
Aegista chosenica (Pilsbry, 1927)
Aegista congener Preston, 1914
Aegista coudeini (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900)
Aegista crassiuscula (E. A. Smith, 1896)
Aegista delectabilis (P. Ehrmann, 1900)
Aegista diplogramme ^{[citation needed]}
Aegista diversa Kuroda & Miyanaga, 1936
Aegista diversifamilia C.-W. Huang, Y.-C. Lee, S.-M. Lin & W.-L. Wu, 2014
Aegista fausta Kuroda & Habe, 1951
Aegista fauveli (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900)
Aegista friedeliana (E. von Martens, 1864)
Aegista fulgens ^{[citation needed]}
Aegista fulvicans (H. Adams, 1866)
Aegista furtiva (Heude, 1885)
Aegista gerlachi E.C. Von Martens, 1881
Aegista gitaena (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1908)
Aegista gottschei (Möllendorff, 1887)
Aegista granti (L. Pfeiffer, 1865)
Aegista hachijoensis ^{[citation needed]}
Aegista hakusanensis M. Azuma & Y. Azuma, 1982
Aegista hebes (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1905)
Aegista herpestes (P.M. Heude, 1885)
Aegista hiroshifukudai Hirano, Kameda & Chiba, 2016
Aegista huberorum Thach, 2023
Aegista hupeana (Gredler, 1886)
Aegista impexa (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1905)
Aegista inermis ^{[citation needed]}
Aegista inornata (H.A. Pilsbry, 1901)
Aegista inrinensis (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1905)
Aegista intonsa (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1902)
Aegista kanmuriyamensis M. Azuma & Y. Azuma, 1982
Aegista kantori Thach & F. Huber, 2021
Aegista kobensis (Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1890) (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym, based on unavailable original name; gotoensis appears to be the earliest available name)
Aegista kunimiensis M. Azuma & Y. Azuma, 1982
Aegista laoyelingensis Zhang, 1993
Aegista lasia (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1909)
Aegista laurentii (Gredler, 1887)
Aegista lautsi (Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1890)
Aegista martensiana (H.A. Pilsbry, 1901)
Aegista mayasana (M. Azuma, 1969)
Aegista megachila Möllendorff, 1899
Aegista mimula (H.A. Pilsbry, 1901)
Aegista minima (Pilsbry, 1902)
Aegista mitanensis (Godwin-Austen, 1889)
Aegista nikkoensis Kuroda, 1982
Aegista oculus (L. Pfeiffer, 1850)
Aegista oldhami (Benson, 1859)
Aegista omma (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904)
Aegista onae Thach & F. Huber, 2021
Aegista packhaensis Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1909)
Aegista permellita (Heude, 1886)
Aegista perplexa (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1905)
Aegista phayrei (Theobald, 1859)
Aegista platyomphala (Möllendorff, 1885)
Aegista proba (A. Adams, 1868)
Aegista proxima (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1909)
Aegista pseudopapuina (Möllendorff, 1901)
Aegista pseudotrochula (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1909)
Aegista pygmaea Kuroda & Kawamoto, 1956
Aegista pyramidata (Pilsbry, 1927)
Aegista radleyi ^{[citation needed]}
Aegista serpestes (Heude, 1890)
Aegista squarrosa (A. Gould, 1859)
Aegista stenomphala Minato, 2003
Aegista shikokuensis ^{[citation needed]}
Aegista stephanieclarkae Thach & F. Huber, 2021
Aegista subchinensis (Möllendorff, 1884)
Aegista subinflexa (Mabille, 1889)
Aegista tadai Minato, 1983
Aegista taiwanica Kuroda, 1941
Aegista tapeina (W. H. Benson, 1836)
Aegista tenerrima Möllendorff, 1899
Aegista tenuissima (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1908)
Aegista tokunoshimana ^{[citation needed]}
Aegista tokyoensis Sorita, 1980
Aegista trichotropis (L. Pfeiffer, 1850)
Aegista tumida (Gude, 1901)
Aegista vermis (Reeve, 1852)
Aegista visayana ^{[citation needed]}
Aegista vulgivaga(P.B. Schmacker & O. Böttger, 1890)

Synonyms[edit]

Aegista aemula (Gude, 1900): synonym of Plectotropis aemula (Gude, 1900)
Aegista coeni Preston, 1914: synonym of Landouria coeni (Preston, 1914) (original combination)
Aegista conomphala Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1903: synonym of Plectotropis conomphala Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1903
Aegista elegantissima (L. Pfeiffer, 1849) : synonym of Plectotropis elegantissima (L. Pfeiffer, 1849)
Aegista emma (L. Pfeiffer, 1863): synonym of Ganesella emma (L. Pfeiffer, 1863) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Aegista grumulus Godwin-Austen, 1891: synonym of Landouria grumulus (Godwin-Austen, 1891)
Aegista horrida (Pilsbry, 1900): synonym of Plectotropis horrida (Pilsbry, 1900)
Aegista inexpectata Kuroda & Minato, 1977: synonym of Plectotropis inexpectata (Kuroda & Minato, 1977)
Aegista kiusiuensis (Pilsbry, 1900): synonym of Plectotropis kiusiuensis (Pilsbry, 1900)
Aegista lepidophora (Gude, 1900): synonym of Plectotropis lepidophora (Gude, 1900)
Aegista mackensii (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850) : synonym of Plectotropis mackensii (Adams & Reeve, 1850)
Aegista mesasiana (Lindholm, 1927): synonym of Paedhoplita lentina (E. von Martens, 1885) (junior subjective synonym)
Aegista marginata (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1903): synonym of Plectotropis marginata (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1903)
Aegista omiensis (Pilsbry, 1901): synonym of Plectotropis omiensis (Pilsbry, 1902)
Aegista pannosa (Pilsbry, 1902): synonym of Plectotropis pannosa (Pilsbry, 1902)
Aegista scepasma (Reeve, 1854): synonym of Plectotropis scepasma (Reeve, 1854)
Aegista tenella (L. Pfeiffer, 1862) : synonym of Chloritis tenella (L. Pfeiffer, 1862) (subsequent combination)
Aegista trochula (A. Adams, 1868): synonym of Neoaegista trochula (A. Adams, 1868)

Taxon inquirendum

Aegista shermani L. Pfeiffer, 1866 sensu Huang et al. (2014) taxon inquirendum, based on a misidentification; not Helix shermani L. Pfeiffer, 1866)

References[edit]

^ ^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
^ G.W. Tryon, Manual of conchology. Second series: Pulmonata vol. II This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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.

External links[edit]

Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Enslin. 262 pp.

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[WoRMS-1] 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

[2] G.W. Tryon, Manual of conchology. Second series: Pulmonata vol. II This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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