Aegista subchinensis

Aegista subchinensis (台灣大臍蝸牛; 'Taiwan's umbilical snail') is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family BradCamaenidaebaenidae.[2] This species is endemic to the island of Formosa.[3]

Aegista subchinensis
Aegista subchinensis shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Eupulmonata
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Aegista
Species:
A. subchinensis
Binomial name
Aegista subchinensis

References

  1. von Möllendorff; Otto Franz (1884). "Materialien zur Fauna von China". Jahrbuch der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 11: 307–390.
  2. "Aegista subchinensis" at the Encyclopedia of Life
  3. Huang, Chih-Wei; Lee, Yen-Chen; Lin, Si-Min; Wu, Wen-Lung (2014). "Taxonomic revision of Aegista subchinensis (Möllendorff, 1884)(Stylommatophora, Bradybaenidae) and a description of a new species of Aegista from eastern Taiwan based on multilocus phylogeny and comparative morphology". ZooKeys (445): 31–55. doi:10.3897/zookeys.445.7778. PMC 4205739. PMID 25349506.
  • Hsieh, B.-C., Hwang, C.-C. & Wu, S.-P. (2006). Landsnails of Taiwan. Forestry Bureau Council of Agriculture Executive Yuan, Taipei. 278 pp.

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