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

Aegista kobensis
Shell of Aegista kobensis (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Aegista
Species:
A. kobensis
Binomial name
Aegista kobensis
(Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1890)
Synonyms[1]
  • Aegista (Aegista) kobensis (Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1890) (no subgenera are recognized)
  • Eulota (Aegista) kobensis (Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1890) (unaccepted combination)
  • Helix (Aegista) kobensis Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1890 (invalid; not O. Boettger, 1883)

The name is accepted as an unreplaced junior homonym (based on unavailable original name; gotoensis appears to be the earliest available name)

Subspecies
  • Aegista kobensis discus (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904)
  • Aegista kobensis gotoensis (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1902)
  • Aegista kobensis kobensis (Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1890)
  • Aegista kobensis koshikijimana (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904)
  • Aegista kobensis pertenuis (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904)
  • Aegista kobensis tsumiyamai Kuroda & T. Habe, 1951

Distribution

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This shell occurs in Japan and Korea.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b WoRMS. "Aegista kobensis (Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1890)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  2. ^ Kimura, K.; Chiba, S.; Pak, J. H. (2023). "Molecular investigation on diversity of the land snail genus Aegista (Gastropoda, Camaenidae) in South Korea". Biodiversity Data Journal. 11: e96800. doi:10.3897/BDJ.11.e96800. PMC 10848476. PMID 38327297.
  • Minato, H. (1988). A systematic and bibliographic list of the Japanese land snails. H. Minato, Shirahama, 294 pp., 7 pls.
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