Aegista accrescens | |
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Shell of Aegista accrescens (syntype at the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Camaenidae |
Subfamily: | Bradybaeninae |
Tribe: | Aegistini |
Genus: | Aegista |
Species: | A. accrescens
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Binomial name | |
Aegista accrescens (Heude, 1882)
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Synonyms[1] | |
Helix accrescens Heude, 1882 (original combination) |
Aegista accrescens is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Camaenidae.[1]
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.[2]
This species occurs in China; type locality: Wuchang, Hubei.
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