Aegista vulgivaga

Taxobox
name = "Aegista vulgivaga"


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Stylommatophora
familia = Bradybaenidae
genus = "Aegista"
genus_authority =
species = "A. vulgivaga"
binomial = "Aegista vulgivaga"
binomial_authority = (Schmacker and Boettger, 1890)

"Aegista vulgivaga" is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bradybaenidae.

Anatomy

Snails in this species create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.

Distribution

This species of snail is endemic to Japan.

References

* Images at: [http://shell.kwansei.ac.jp/~shell/pic_book/data31/r003070.html]
* Taxonomy at: [http://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/89999]