Aegista carinata explained

Aegista carinata is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Camaenidae.

Descriprtion

It is more depressed than Trishoplita goodwinii (E. A. Smith, 1876) and distinctly keeled at the periphery.^[1]

Distribution and habitat

This shell occurs on Shikoku Island, Japan.

References

• Substantial incongruence among the morphology, taxonomy, and molecular phylogeny of the land snails Aegista, Landouria, Trishoplita, and Pseudobuliminus (Pulmonata: Bradybaenidae) occurring in East Asia; Hirano, T., Kameda, Y., Kimura, K. and Chiba, S. - Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 70C, 171-181 (2013)

External links

• 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

Notes and References

1. Book: Gude, G.K.. A third report on helicoid land-shells from Japan and the Loo-Choo Islands . 1901 . Malacological Society of London . v.4 (1900-1901). 191–200 . London.