Aegista
| Aegista | |
|---|---|
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| Two live individuals of Aegista tokyoensis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Bradybaenidae |
| Genus: | Aegista Albers, 1860 |
Aegista is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bradybaenidae.
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 crassiuscula
- Aegista delectabilis
- Aegista diplogramme
- Aegista diversifamilia
- Aegista elegantissima
- Aegista friedeliana
- Aegista fulgens
- Aegista fulvicans
- Aegista gerlachi
- Aegista hachijoensis
- Aegista herpestes
- Aegista horrida
- Aegista inermis
- Aegista inexpectata
- Aegista inornata
- Aegista inrinensis
- Aegista intonsa
- Aegista kiusiuensis
- Aegista kobensis
- Aegista lautsi
- Aegista lepidophora
- Aegista mackensii (Chinese:台湾盾蜗牛)
- Aegista marginata
- Aegista martensiana
- Aegista mimula
- Aegista minima
- Aegista oculus
- Aegista omiensis
- Aegista packhaensis
- Aegista pannosa
- Aegista permellita
- Aegista perplexa
- Aegista platyomphala
- Aegista radleyi
- Aegista scepasma
- Aegista serpestes
- Aegista shikokuensis
- Aegista squarrosa
- Aegista subchinensis
- Aegista subinflexa
- Aegista tapeina
- Aegista tokunoshimana
- Aegista tokyoensis
- Aegista trichotropis
- Aegista trochula
- Aegista vermis
- Aegista visayana
- Aegista vulgivaga