Aegista carinata is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Camaenidae.
Description It is more depressed than Trishoplita goodwinii (E. A. Smith, 1876) and distinctly keeled at the periphery.
Distribution and habitat This shell occurs on Shikoku Island, Japan.
References
Substantial incongruence among the morphology, taxonomy, and molecular phylogeny of the land snails Aegista, Landouria, Trishoplita, and Pseudobuliminus (Pulmonata: Bradybaenidae) occurring in East Asia; Hirano, T., Kameda, Y., Kimura, K. and Chiba, S. - Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 70C, 171-181 (2013)
External links 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