Aegista fulvicans (H. Adams, 1866)

Hwang, Chung-Chi, 2014, Annotated type catalogue of land snails collected from Taiwan (Formosa) in the Natural History Museum, London, ZooKeys 428, pp. 1-28 : 13

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.428.8061

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scientific name

Aegista fulvicans (H. Adams, 1866)
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Bradybaenidae

Aegista fulvicans (H. Adams, 1866) View in CoL Figure 2H

Helix (Plectotropis) fulvicans H. Adams, 1866: 316, pl. 33 fig. 2.

Aegista (Plectotropis) fulvicans , Kuroda 1941: 147.

Type locality.

Tamsui, Formosa [Danshui, New Taipei City] (Swinhoe)

Material examined.

Lectotype. Formosa, coll. Swinhoe (NHMUK 1866.5.9.10/1), new designation, 9.9 × 14 mm, whorls 7.

Paralectotypes. Formosa, coll. Swinhoe (NHMUK 1866.5.9.10/2-3, 2 shells). Formosa, from collection of H. Adams (NHMUK 1878.1.23.204, 2 shells).

Remarks.

Adams (1866) described the locality as Tamsui, Formosa, but the original label has only "Formosa". The largest specimen mostly similar to the illustration in Adams (1866) is designated as the lectotype.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Camaenidae

Genus

Aegista