Aegista caerulea is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Camaenidae.[1]
| Aegista caerulea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Aegista |
| Species: | A. caerulea
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| Binomial name | |
| Aegista caerulea Kuroda & T. Habe, 1960
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Aegista (Aegista) caerulea Kuroda & Habe, 1960 (no subgenera are recognized) | |
Distribution and habitat
editThis shell occurs on the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. [1] and Korea[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c WoRMS. "Aegista caerulea Kuroda & T. Habe, 1960". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
- ^ Kimura, Kazuki; Chiba, Satoshi; Pak, Jae-Hong (31 January 2023). "Molecular investigation on diversity of the land snail genus Aegista (Gastropoda, Camaenidae) in South Korea". Biodiversity Data Journal. 11: e96800. doi:10.3897/BDJ.11.e96800. ISSN 1314-2828. PMC 10848476. PMID 38327297.
- Kuroda, T. (1960). Okinawa guntosan kairui mokuroku (tosokurui o nozoku). A catalogue of the molluscan fauna of the Okinawa Islands (exclusive of the Cephalopoda). Okinawa, Naha-Shi: Ryukyu University Kyomubu Fukyuka. iv, 106 pp., 3 plates.
- Minato, H. (1988). A systematic and bibliographic list of the Japanese land snails. H. Minato, Shirahama, 294 pp., 7 pls.
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