- Source: Aegista accrescens
Aegista accrescens is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Camaenidae.
Subspecies
Aegista accrescens accrescens (Heude, 1882)
Aegista accrescens initialis (Heude, 1882)
Description
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.
Distribution
This species occurs in China; type locality: Wuchang, Hubei.
References
External links
Heude, P. M. (1882–1890). Notes sur les mollusques terrestres de la vallée du Fleuve Bleu. Mémoires concernant l'histoire naturelle de l'Empire chinois.
Teng-Chien Yen, Review and Summary of Tertiary and Quaternary Non-Marine Mollusks of China; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Vol. 95 (1943), pp. 267-309+346
Harvard University, Museum of Comparative ZoologyHelix accrescens Heude, 1882
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. "MCZbase MCZ:Mala:167225 specimen record". MCZbase. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
Gbif.org: image
Conchology.be: image
Researchgate.net: image of interior
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