Aegista lasia is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Camaenidae.[1]

Aegista lasia
Shell of Aegista lasia (holotype)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Aegista
Species:
A. lasia
Binomial name
Aegista lasia
(Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1909)
Synonyms[1]

Eulota (Aegista) lasia Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1909 (original combination)

Description

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The diameter of the shell attains 5.5 mm, its height 2.25 mm.

The shell is diminutive and depressed with its form openly umbilicate. It is delicately thin, and has a light brown color. Its surface is slightly shining and is covered with sporadic, elongated and curved hairs, most densely around its outer rim, yet sparse upon the inner whorls. The spire is composed of five quite convex whorls, each gently increasing and distinctly demarcated by a profound suture. The body whorl, gracefully rounded at its edge, dips slightly forward. Its aperture, rounded and crescent-like, inclines notably and is quite oblique. The peristome, delicately thin, widens narrowly, and is slightly reflexed at its base. The margins converge, joined by a thin parietal callus, encircling roughly a fifth of the circumference of the aperture. [2]

Distribution

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This shell occurs in Korea.

References

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  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Aegista lasia (Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1909). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1473114 on 2024-05-16
  2. ^ Pilsbry, H. A. & Hirase, Y. (1909). Descriptions of new Korean land shells. Conchological magazine. 3: 9-13, pl. 5   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.