Aegista accrescens
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| Aegista accrescens | |
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| Shell of Aegista accrescens (syntype at the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Bradybaeninae |
| Tribe: | Aegistini |
| Genus: | Aegista |
| Species: | A. accrescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Aegista accrescens (Heude, 1882) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Helix accrescens Heude, 1882 (original combination) | |
Aegista accrescens is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Camaenidae.[1]
- Subspecies
- Aegista accrescens accrescens (Heude, 1882)
- Aegista accrescens initialis (Heude, 1882)
The diameter of the shell attains 16.5 mm.
The shell is widely umbilicated. It is thin, pellucid corneous, with a whitish peripheral band. The shell contains seven whorls. These are narrow, slightly convex and slowly increasing. The body whorl is obtusely angulated. The peristome is white and narrowly reflected.[2]
