Aegista carinata is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Camaenidae.
Descriprtion
It is more depressed than Trishoplita goodwinii <small>(E. A. Smith, 1876)</small> and distinctly keeled at the periphery.
Distribution and habitat
This shell occurs on Shikoku Island, Japan.
References
- Substantial incongruence among the morphology, taxonomy, and molecular phylogeny of the land snails Aegista, Landouria, Trishoplita, and Pseudobuliminus (Pulmonata: Bradybaenidae) occurring in East Asia; Hirano, T., Kameda, Y., Kimura, K. and Chiba, S. - Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 70C, 171-181 (2013)
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