- Source: Aegista gottschei
Aegista gottschei is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Camaenidae.
Subspecies
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.
Distribution
This species occurs in Korea.
References
Kuroda, T. & Miyanaga, M. (1939). New Land Shells from Northern Tyosen (Korea). Venus. 9(2): 66–85.
External links
Möllendorff, O. F. von. (1887). Die Landschnecken von Korea. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 14: 9-22, pl. 2.
Pilsbry, H. A. & Hirase, Y. (1909). Descriptions of new Korean land shells. Conchological magazine. 3: 9-13, pl. 5
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