Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Heterobranchia
Infraclassis: Euthyneura
Cohors: Tectipleura
Subcohors: Panpulmonata
Superordo: Eupulmonata
Ordo: Stylommatophora
Subordo: Helicina
Infraordo: Helicoidei
Superfamilia: Helicoidea
Familia: Camaenidae
Subfamilia: Bradybaeninae
Tribus: Aegistini
Genus: Aegista
Species (54): A. awajiensis – A. baphica – A. caerulea – A. catostoma – A. celsa – . . .
Name
Aegista Albers, 1850
Orig. name: Helix (Aegista) Albers, 1850
Synonyms
Eulota (Aegista) Albers, 1850 (unaccepted combination)
Helix (Aegista) Albers, 1850
References
Huang, C.-W. et al. 2014: Taxonomic revision of Aegista subchinensis (Möllendorff, 1884) (Stylommatophora, Bradybaenidae) and a description of a new species of Aegista from eastern Taiwan based on multilocus phylogeny and comparative morphology. ZooKeys 445: 31–55. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.445.7778 Reference page.
Links
Aegista in the World Register of Marine Species
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.
Description
The thin, conical or lenticular shell is depressed and widely umbilicated. The shell is uniform corneous. The shell is strongly sculptured. The periphery is rounded, or obtusely angulated. The rounded body whorl is descending in front. The peristome is slightly expanded, a little thickened within.[2]
In the past, this genus has often been used interchangeably with Plectotropis Martens, 1860
Distribution
This genus of snails is distributed throughout from Southeast Asia to temperate East Asia.
Species
Species within the genus Aegista include:
Aegista accrescens (Heude, 1882)
Aegista araneaetela (P.M. Heude, 1885) (synonym: Helix araneaetela Heude, 1885)
Aegista aubryana (Heude, 1882)
Aegista awajiensis (Gude, 1900)
Aegista baphica (Mabille, 1888)
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 chosenica (Pilsbry, 1927)
Aegista congener Preston, 1914
Aegista coudeini (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900)
Aegista crassiuscula (E. A. Smith, 1896)
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 fulvicans (H. Adams, 1866)
Aegista furtiva (Heude, 1885)
Aegista gitaena (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1908)
Aegista gottschei (Möllendorff, 1887)
Aegista granti (L. Pfeiffer, 1865)
Aegista hachijoensis (Pilsbry, 1902)
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 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 mayasana (M. Azuma, 1969)
Aegista megachila Möllendorff, 1899
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 serpestes (Heude, 1890)
Aegista squarrosa (A. Gould, 1859)
Aegista stenomphala Minato, 2003
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 tokyoensis Sorita, 1980
Aegista tumida (Gude, 1901)
Aegista vermis (Reeve, 1852)
Synonyms
Aegista aemula (Gude, 1900): synonym of Plectotropis aemula (Gude, 1900)
Aegista bonnieri (H. Fischer, 1898): synonym of Plectotropis bonnieri (H. Fischer, 1898)
Aegista chondroderma (O.F. von Möllendorff, 1900): synonym of Plectotropis chondroderma Möllendorff, 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 gerlachi E.C. Von Martens, 1881: synonym of Plectotropis gerlachi (E. von Martens, 1881)
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 inornata (H.A. Pilsbry, 1901): synonym of Plectotropis osbeckii (R. A. Philippi, 1847)
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 martensiana (H.A. Pilsbry, 1901): synonym of Aegista (Aegista) squarrosa squarrosa (A. Gould, 1859): synonym of Aegista squarrosa squarrosa (A. Gould, 1859)
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 mimula (H.A. Pilsbry, 1901): synonym of Aegista proba mimula (Pilsbry, 1900)
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 tokunoshimana Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904: synonym of Aegista squarrosa tokunoshimana (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904)
Aegista trichotropis (L. Pfeiffer, 1850): synonym of Plectotropis trichotropis (L. Pfeiffer, 1850)
Aegista trochula (A. Adams, 1868): synonym of Neoaegista trochula (A. Adams, 1868)
Aegista visayana (Möllendorf, 1888): synonym of Plectotropis visayana (Möllendorff, 1888)
Aegista vulgivaga(P.B. Schmacker & O. Böttger, 1890): synonym of Plectotropis vulgivaga (Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1890)
Taxon inquirendum
Aegista delectabilis (P. Ehrmann, 1900): synonym of Plectotropis delectabilis Ehrmann, 1900 (uncertain, unassessed)
Aegista shermani L. Pfeiffer, 1866 sensu Huang et al. (2014) taxon inquirendum, based on a misidentification; not Helix shermani L. Pfeiffer, 1866)
References
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 7 May 2020
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.
List of species at: [1]
Taxonomy at: [2]
Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017.
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