Aegista gottschei
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| Aegista gottschei | |
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| Shell of Aegista gottschei (holotype) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Aegista |
| Species: | A. gottschei |
| Binomial name | |
| Aegista gottschei (Möllendorff, 1887) | |
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Aegista gottschei is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Camaenidae.[1] It was first described in 1887 by Otto Franz von Mollendorff as Helix (Aegista) gottschei.[1][2] The species epithet honours Carl Christian Gottsche who collected this snail in Korea.[2]
- Aegista gottschei fusanica (Pilsbry, 1927)
- Aegista gottschei gottschei (Möllendorff, 1887)
Description
The diameter of the shell is 11 mm.
The shell has a wide umbilicus. It shows delicately oblique striae, and has a membranous costulation, with microscopic spiraling lines. The shell presents a brownish corneous hue. Its contains 6-7 whorls, each gently convex, with the body whorl obtusely angulated and minutely deflected forward. The peristome is thin, modestly expanded, and somewhat reflected.[3]
