Aegista subchinensis

Aegista subchinensis
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
Species: A. subchinensis
Binomial name
Aegista subchinensis
(Möllendorff, 1884)[1]

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 Bradybaenidae.[2] This species is endemic to the island of Formosa.[3]

Notes and 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; and 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" (PDF). ZooKeys 445: 31–55. doi:10.3897/zookeys.445.7778.


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