Aegista phayrei is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Camaenidae.[1]
| Aegista phayrei | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Aegista |
| Species: | A. phayrei
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| Binomial name | |
| Aegista phayrei (Theobald, 1859)
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Description
edit(Original description in Latin) The shell is lenticular and funnel-shaped with an obtuse keel. It features strong striations with curved, confluent transverse lines. It has six distinct, convex whorls. The suture is impressed. The aperture is oblique and nearly square in shape. The peristome is thin and reflexed.[2]
Distribution
editReferences
edit- ^ a b WoRMS. "Aegista phayrei (Theobald, 1859)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
- ^ a b Theobald, W. (1859). Descriptions of some new Burmese and Indian Helicidae with remarks on some previously described species. The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 28 (4): 305-309. Calcutta
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External links
edit- Gude, G. K. (1921). Mollusca. III. Land Operculates. Cyclophoridae, Truncatellidae, Assimineidae, Helicinidae.). In: Shipley, A. E. & Marshall, G. A. K. (eds.):. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. I–XIV, 386 pp. London (Taylor & Francis)
- Páll-Gergely, B., Hunyadi, A. & Hausdorf, B. (2020). A new species of Landouria Godwin-Austen, 1918 (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Camaenidae) from Myanmar. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 68: 379–386
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