Aegista

Aegista
Aegista tokyoensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Subfamily: Bradybaeninae
Tribe: Aegistini
Genus: Aegista
Albers, 1850
Type species
Helix chinensis
Philippi, 1845
Synonyms[1]
  • 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

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:

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 superseded combination)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

  1. ^ 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 7 May 2020
  2. ^ 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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