Aegista

Taxobox
name = "Aegista"


image_caption = "Aegista tokyoensis"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Stylommatophora
familia = Bradybaenidae
genus = "Aegista"
genus_authority = Albers, 1860

"Aegista" is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bradybaenidae.

Anatomy

Species within this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.

Distribution

This genus of snails is endemic to Japan.

pecies within the genus "Aegista"

* "Aegista accrescens"
* "Aegista aemula"
* "Aegista aperta"
* "Aegista araneaetela"
* "Aegista aubryana"
* "Aegista awajiensis"
* "Aegista bonnieri"
* "Aegista chinensis"
* "Aegista chondroderma"
* "Aegista conomphala"
* "Aegista crassiuscula"
* "Aegista delectabilis"
* "Aegista diplogramme"
* "Aegista elegantissima"
* "Aegista friedeliana"
* "Aegista fulgens"
* "Aegista fulvicans"
* "Aegista gerlachi"
* "Aegista hachijoensis"
* "Aegista herpestes"
* "Aegista horrida"
* "Aegista inermis"
* "Aegista inexpectata"
* "Aegista inornata"
* "Aegista inrinensis"
* "Aegista intonsa"
* "Aegista kiusiuensis"
* "Aegista kobensis"
* "Aegista lautsi"
* "Aegista lepidophora"
* "Aegista mackensii"
* "Aegista marginata"
* "Aegista martensiana"
* "Aegista mimula"
* "Aegista minima"
* "Aegista oculus"
* "Aegista omiensis"
* "Aegista packhaensis"
* "Aegista pannosa"
* "Aegista permellita"
* "Aegista perplexa"
* "Aegista platyomphala"
* "Aegista radleyi"
* "Aegista scepasma"
* "Aegista serpestes"
* "Aegista shikokuensis"
* "Aegista squarrosa"
* "Aegista subchinensis"
* "Aegista subinflexa"
* "Aegista tapeina"
* "Aegista tokunoshimana"
* "Aegista trichotropis"
* "Aegista trochula"
* "Aegista vermis"
* "Aegista visayana"
* "Aegista vulgivaga"

References

* List of species at: [http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20o?search=Aegista]
* Taxonomy at: [http://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/89999]