Aegista is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Aegista Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=874976 on 7 May 2020
Anatomy Species within this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.
Description The thin, conical or lenticular shell is depressed and widely umbilicated. The shell is uniform corneous. The shell is strongly sculptured. The periphery is rounded, or obtusely angulated. The rounded body whorl is descending in front. The peristome is slightly expanded, a little thickened within.G.W. Tryon, Manual of conchology. Second series: Pulmonata vol. II
In the past, this genus has often been used interchangeably with Plectotropis Martens, 1860.
Distribution This genus of snails is distributed throughout from Southeast Asia to temperate East Asia.
Species Species within the genus Aegista include:
Aegista accrescens (Heude, 1882) Aegista araneaetela (P.M. Heude, 1885) (synonym: Helix araneaetela Heude, 1885) Aegista aubryana (Heude, 1882) Aegista awajiensis (Gude, 1900) Aegista baphica (Mabille, 1888) Aegista caerulea Kuroda & T. Habe, 1960 Aegista calcicola (Masuda & Habe, 1989) Aegista carinata (Gude, 1901) Aegista catostoma (W. T. Blanford, 1869) Aegista celsa (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1908) Aegista chejuensis (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1908) Aegista chinensis (R. A. Philippi, 1845) Aegista chosenica (Pilsbry, 1927) Aegista congener Preston, 1914 Aegista coudeini (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900) Aegista crassiuscula (E. A. Smith, 1896) Aegista diversa Kuroda & Miyanaga, 1936 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 friedeliana (E. von Martens, 1864) Aegista fulvicans (H. Adams, 1866) Aegista furtiva (Heude, 1885) Aegista gitaena (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1908) Aegista gottschei (Möllendorff, 1887) Aegista granti (L. Pfeiffer, 1865) Aegista hachijoensis (Pilsbry, 1902) Aegista hakusanensis M. Azuma & Y. Azuma, 1982 Aegista hebes (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1905) Aegista herpestes (P.M. Heude, 1885) Aegista hiroshifukudai Hirano, Kameda & Chiba, 2016 Aegista huberorum Thach, 2023 Aegista hupeana (Gredler, 1886) Aegista impexa (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1905) Aegista inrinensis (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1905) Aegista intonsa (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1902) Aegista kanmuriyamensis M. Azuma & Y. Azuma, 1982 Aegista kantori Thach & F. Huber, 2021 Aegista kobensis (Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1890) (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym, based on unavailable original name; gotoensis appears to be the earliest available name) Aegista kunimiensis M. Azuma & Y. Azuma, 1982 Aegista laoyelingensis Zhang, 1993 Aegista lasia (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1909) Aegista laurentii (Gredler, 1887) Aegista lautsi (Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1890) Aegista mayasana (M. Azuma, 1969) Aegista megachila Möllendorff, 1899 Aegista minima (Pilsbry, 1902) Aegista mitanensis (Godwin-Austen, 1889) Aegista nikkoensis Kuroda, 1982 Aegista oculus (L. Pfeiffer, 1850) Aegista oldhami (Benson, 1859) Aegista omma (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904) Aegista onae Thach & F. Huber, 2021 Aegista packhaensis Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1909) Aegista permellita (Heude, 1886) Aegista perplexa (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1905) Aegista phayrei (Theobald, 1859) Aegista platyomphala (Möllendorff, 1885) Aegista proba (A. Adams, 1868) Aegista proxima (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1909) Aegista pseudopapuina (Möllendorff, 1901) Aegista pseudotrochula (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1909) Aegista pygmaea Kuroda & Kawamoto, 1956 Aegista pyramidata (Pilsbry, 1927) Aegista serpestes (Heude, 1890) Aegista squarrosa (A. Gould, 1859) Aegista stenomphala Minato, 2003 Aegista stephanieclarkae Thach & F. Huber, 2021 Aegista subchinensis (Möllendorff, 1884) Aegista subinflexa (Mabille, 1889) Aegista tadai Minato, 1983 Aegista taiwanica Kuroda, 1941 Aegista tapeina (W. H. Benson, 1836) Aegista tenerrima Möllendorff, 1899 Aegista tenuissima (Pilsbry & Hirase, 1908) Aegista tokyoensis Sorita, 1980 Aegista tumida (Gude, 1901) Aegista vermis (Reeve, 1852)
Synonyms Aegista aemula (Gude, 1900): synonym of Plectotropis aemula (Gude, 1900) Aegista bonnieri (H. Fischer, 1898): synonym of Plectotropis bonnieri (H. Fischer, 1898) Aegista chondroderma (O.F. von Möllendorff, 1900): synonym of Plectotropis chondroderma Möllendorff, 1900 Aegista coeni Preston, 1914: synonym of Landouria coeni (Preston, 1914) (original combination) Aegista conomphala Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1903: synonym of Plectotropis conomphala Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1903 Aegista elegantissima (L. Pfeiffer, 1849) : synonym of Plectotropis elegantissima (L. Pfeiffer, 1849) Aegista emma (L. Pfeiffer, 1863): synonym of Ganesella emma (L. Pfeiffer, 1863) (unaccepted > superseded combination) Aegista gerlachi E.C. Von Martens, 1881: synonym of Plectotropis gerlachi (E. von Martens, 1881) Aegista grumulus Godwin-Austen, 1891: synonym of Landouria grumulus (Godwin-Austen, 1891) Aegista horrida (Pilsbry, 1900): synonym of Plectotropis horrida (Pilsbry, 1900) Aegista inexpectata Kuroda & Minato, 1977: synonym of Plectotropis inexpectata (Kuroda & Minato, 1977) Aegista inornata (H.A. Pilsbry, 1901): synonym of Plectotropis osbeckii (R. A. Philippi, 1847) Aegista kiusiuensis (Pilsbry, 1900): synonym of Plectotropis kiusiuensis (Pilsbry, 1900) Aegista lepidophora (Gude, 1900): synonym of Plectotropis lepidophora (Gude, 1900) Aegista mackensii (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850) : synonym of Plectotropis mackensii (Adams & Reeve, 1850) Aegista martensiana (H.A. Pilsbry, 1901): synonym of Aegista (Aegista) squarrosa squarrosa (A. Gould, 1859): synonym of Aegista squarrosa squarrosa (A. Gould, 1859) Aegista mesasiana (Lindholm, 1927): synonym of Paedhoplita lentina (E. von Martens, 1885) (junior subjective synonym) Aegista marginata (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1903): synonym of Plectotropis marginata (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1903) Aegista mimula (H.A. Pilsbry, 1901): synonym of Aegista proba mimula (Pilsbry, 1900) Aegista omiensis (Pilsbry, 1901): synonym of Plectotropis omiensis (Pilsbry, 1902) Aegista pannosa (Pilsbry, 1902): synonym of Plectotropis pannosa (Pilsbry, 1902) Aegista scepasma (Reeve, 1854): synonym of Plectotropis scepasma (Reeve, 1854) Aegista tenella (L. Pfeiffer, 1862) : synonym of Chloritis tenella (L. Pfeiffer, 1862) (subsequent combination) Aegista tokunoshimana Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904: synonym of Aegista squarrosa tokunoshimana (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1904) Aegista trichotropis (L. Pfeiffer, 1850): synonym of Plectotropis trichotropis (L. Pfeiffer, 1850) Aegista trochula (A. Adams, 1868): synonym of Neoaegista trochula (A. Adams, 1868) Aegista visayana (Möllendorf, 1888): synonym of Plectotropis visayana (Möllendorff, 1888) Aegista vulgivaga(P.B. Schmacker & O. Böttger, 1890): synonym of Plectotropis vulgivaga (Schmacker & O. Boettger, 1890)
Taxon inquirendum Aegista delectabilis (P. Ehrmann, 1900): synonym of Plectotropis delectabilis Ehrmann, 1900 (uncertain, unassessed) Aegista shermani L. Pfeiffer, 1866 sensu Huang et al. (2014) taxon inquirendum, based on a misidentification; not Helix shermani L. Pfeiffer, 1866)
References
List of species at: Taxonomy at: Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017.
External links
Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Enslin. 262 pp.