Aegista kobensis explained

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

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

This shell occurs in Japan and Korea.^[1]

References

• Minato, H. (1988). A systematic and bibliographic list of the Japanese land snails. H. Minato, Shirahama, 294 pp., 7 pls.

External links

• Schmacker, B. & Boettger, O. (1890). Neue Materialien zur Charakteristik und geographischen Verbreitung chinesischer und japanischer Binnenmollusken I. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft, 22 (1/2): 1-30, pl. 1; 22 (7/8): 113-137, pl. 2
• Jacobi, A. (1898). Japanische beschalte Pulmonaten. Anatomische Untersuchung des in zoologischen Museum der Kaiserlichen Universität in Tokyo enthaltenen Materiales, I 1-102. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan. 12 (1): 1-102, 6 pls

Notes and References

1. 10.3897/BDJ.11.e96800 . 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. free . 38327297 . 10848476 .