Aegista proxima | |
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Shell of Aegista proxima (holotype) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Camaenidae |
Genus: | Aegista |
Species: | A. proxima
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Binomial name | |
Aegista proxima (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1909)
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Synonyms[1] | |
Eulota (Aegista) proxima Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1909 (original combination) |
Aegista proxima is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Camaenidae.[1]
The diameter of the shell attains 15 mm, its height 8.3mm.
This shell closely resembles Aegista friedeliana from Kyushu. It features an open umbilicus, a low conical spire, and an obtuse, subangular periphery. The surface is sculptured with rather weak, irregular growth striae and covered with a smooth brownish-yellow cuticle, lacking any scaly or thread-like appendages. The whorls increase very slowly, with the body whorl very slightly deflexed at the aperture. The oblique aperture is rounded-lunate, and the peristome is expanded, with the outer and basal margins narrowly reflexed.[2]
This shell occurs in Korea.[3]