Aegista vulgivaga
Aegista vulgivaga is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae. Snails in this species create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior. The species can host sporocysts of Dicrocoelium[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Aegista |
| Species: | A. vulgivaga |
| Binomial name | |
| Aegista vulgivaga (Schmacker and Boettger, 1890) | |
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Distribution
This species of snail is endemic to Japan.
References
- Waki, Tsukasa; Ohari, Yuma; Hayashi, Kei; Moribe, Junji; Matsuo, Kayoko; Takashima, Yasuhiro (2021). "The first detection of Dicrocoelium chinensis sporocysts from the land snail Aegista vulgivaga in Gifu Prefecture, Japan". Journal of Veterinary Medical Science. 83 (6): 957–961. doi:10.1292/jvms.21-0012. PMC 8267190. PMID 33952762.
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