Aegista

Aegista
Two live individuals of Aegista tokyoensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Camaenidae
Subfamily:	Bradybaeninae
Tribe:	Aegistini
Genus:	Aegista Albers, 1850
Type species
Helix chinensis Philippi, 1845
Species
See text
Synonyms
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.

Anatomy

Species within this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.

Distribution

This genus of snails is distributed throughout from Southeast Asia to temperate East Asia.

Species

Species within the genus Aegista include:

• Aegista accrescens
• Aegista aemula
• Aegista aperta
• Aegista araneaetela
• Aegista aubryana
• Aegista awajiensis
• Aegista bonnieri
• Aegista chinensis
• Aegista chondroderma
• Aegista conomphala
• Aegista coudeini (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900)
• Aegista crassiuscula
• Aegista delectabilis
• Aegista diplogramme
• Aegista diversifamilia C.-W. Huang, Y.-C. Lee, S.-M. Lin & W.-L. Wu, 2014
• Aegista fausta Kuroda & Habe, 1951
• Aegista fauveli (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900)
• Aegista elegantissima
• Aegista friedeliana
• Aegista fulgens
• Aegista fulvicans
• Aegista gerlachi
• Aegista hachijoensis
• Aegista hakusanensis M. Azuma & Y. Azuma, 1982
• Aegista hebes (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1905)
• Aegista herpestes
• Aegista hiroshifukudai Hirano, Kameda & Chiba, 2016
• Aegista horrida
• Aegista inermis
• Aegista inexpectata
• Aegista inornata
• Aegista inrinensis
• Aegista intonsa
• Aegista kantori Thach & F. Huber, 2021
• Aegista kiusiuensis
• Aegista kobensis
• Aegista kunimiensis M. Azuma & Y. Azuma, 1982
• Aegista laoyelingensis Zhang, 1993
• Aegista lasia (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1909)
• Aegista lautsi (Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1890)
• Aegista laurentii (Gredler, 1887)
• Aegista lepidophora
• Aegista mackensii (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850) : synonym of Plectotropis mackensii (Adams & Reeve, 1850)
• Aegista marginata
• Aegista martensiana
• Aegista mimula
• Aegista minima
• Aegista oculus
• Aegista oldhami (Benson, 1859)
• Aegista omma (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904)
• Aegista onae Thach & F. Huber, 2021
• Aegista omiensis (Pilsbry, 1901): synonym of Plectotropis omiensis (Pilsbry, 1902)
• Aegista packhaensis
• Aegista pannosa
• Aegista permellita
• Aegista perplexa
• Aegista platyomphala
• Aegista radleyi
• Aegista scepasma
• Aegista serpestes
• Aegista squarrosa (A. Gould, 1859)
• Aegista stenomphala Minato, 2003
• Aegista shikokuensis
• Aegista stephanieclarkae Thach & F. Huber, 2021
• Aegista squarrosa
• Aegista subchinensis
• Aegista subinflexa
• Aegista tapeina
• Aegista tokunoshimana
• Aegista tokyoensis
• Aegista trichotropis
• Aegista trochula
• Aegista vermis
• Aegista visayana
• Aegista vulgivaga

References

• List of species at: [1]
• Taxonomy at: [2]
• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.

External links

• Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Enslin. 262 pp.