Aegista gottschei

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

Subspecies
  • Aegista gottschei fusanica (Pilsbry, 1927)
  • Aegista gottschei gottschei (Möllendorff, 1887)

Aegista gottschei
Shell of Aegista gottschei (holotype)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Aegista
Species:
A. gottschei
Binomial name
Aegista gottschei
(Möllendorff, 1887)
Synonyms[1]
  • Aegista gottschei kongoensis Kuroda & Miyanaga, 1939 (junior synonym)
  • Eulota (Aegista) gottschei (Möllendorff, 1887)
  • Eulota (Aegista) mimula peninsularis Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1909 (junior synonym)
  • Helix (Aegista) gottschei Möllendorff, 1887 (original combination)

Description

The diameter of the shell is 11 mm.

The shell has a wide umbilicus. It shows delicately oblique striae, and has a membranous costulation, with microscopic spiraling lines. The shell presents a brownish corneous hue. Its contains 6-7 whorls, each gently convex, with the body whorl obtusely angulated and minutely deflected forward. The peristome is thin, modestly expanded, and somewhat reflected.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in Korea[3]

References

  • Kuroda, T. & Miyanaga, M. (1939). New Land Shells from Northern Tyosen (Korea). Venus. 9(2): 66–85.
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