Aegista vulgivaga

Aegista vulgivaga is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.

Aegista vulgivaga
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Eupulmonata
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Aegista
Species:
A. vulgivaga
Binomial name
Aegista vulgivaga
(Schmacker and Boettger, 1890)

Anatomy

Snails in this species create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.

Distribution

This species of snail is endemic to Japan.

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