Aegista

Aegista
Two live individuals of Aegista tokyoensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
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

References

• List of species at:
• Taxonomy at: