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.

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 aemula (Gude, 1900): synonym of Plectotropis aemula (Gude, 1900)
Aegista aperta ^{[citation needed]}
Aegista araneaetela ^{[citation needed]}
Aegista aubryana (Heude, 1882)
Aegista awajiensis (Gude, 1900)
Aegista baphica (Mabille, 1888)
Aegista bonnieri ^{[citation needed]}
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 ^{[citation needed]}
Aegista chosenica (Pilsbry, 1927)
Aegista congener Preston, 1914
Aegista conomphala Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1903: synonym of Plectotropis conomphala Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1903
Aegista coudeini (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900)
Aegista crassiuscula (E. A. Smith, 1896)
Aegista delectabilis ^{[citation needed]}
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 elegantissima (L. Pfeiffer, 1849) : synonym of Plectotropis elegantissima (L. Pfeiffer, 1849)
Aegista friedeliana (E. von Martens, 1864)
Aegista fulgens ^{[citation needed]}
Aegista fulvicans (H. Adams, 1866)
Aegista furtiva (Heude, 1885)
Aegista gerlachi ^{[citation needed]}
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 ^{[citation needed]}
Aegista hiroshifukudai Hirano, Kameda & Chiba, 2016
Aegista horrida (Pilsbry, 1900): synonym of Plectotropis horrida (Pilsbry, 1900)
Aegista huberorum Thach, 2023
Aegista hupeana (Gredler, 1886)
Aegista impexa (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1905)
Aegista inermis ^{[citation needed]}
Aegista inexpectata Kuroda & Minato, 1977: synonym of Plectotropis inexpectata (Kuroda & Minato, 1977)
Aegista inornata ^{[citation needed]}
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 kiusiuensis (Pilsbry, 1900): synonym of Plectotropis kiusiuensis (Pilsbry, 1900)
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 lepidophora (Gude, 1900): synonym of Plectotropis lepidophora (Gude, 1900)
Aegista mackensii (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850) : synonym of Plectotropis mackensii (Adams & Reeve, 1850)
Aegista marginata (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1903): synonym of Plectotropis marginata (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1903)
Aegista martensiana
Aegista mimula
Aegista minima
Aegista oculus
Aegista oldhami (Benson, 1859)
Aegista omma (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904)
Aegista onae Thach & F. Huber, 2021
Aegista omiensis (Pilsbry, 1901): synonym of Plectotropis omiensis (Pilsbry, 1902)
Aegista packhaensis
Aegista pannosa
Aegista permellita
Aegista perplexa
Aegista platyomphala
Aegista radleyi
Aegista scepasma
Aegista serpestes
Aegista squarrosa (A. Gould, 1859)
Aegista stenomphala Minato, 2003
Aegista shikokuensis
Aegista stephanieclarkae Thach & F. Huber, 2021
Aegista squarrosa
Aegista subchinensis
Aegista subinflexa
Aegista tapeina
Aegista tokunoshimana
Aegista tokyoensis
Aegista trichotropis
Aegista trochula
Aegista vermis
Aegista visayana
Aegista vulgivaga

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

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.

This Camaenidae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[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

[1]