Molecular investigation on diversity of the land snail genus Aegista (Gastropoda, Camaenidae) in South Korea

By

Kimura, Kazuki
Chiba, Satoshi
Pak, Jae-Hong

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023-01-31

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

11

Pages

1--17

Subjects

Aegista , cryptic species , Land snails , molecular phylogeny , the Korean Peninsula

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e96800
eLocator: e96800

 

Abstract

Aegista Albers, 1850 is a large genus of the land snail family Camaenidae Pilsbry, 1895 and distributed in south, southeast and east Asian countries (from India and Nepal to Korea and Japan). Fourteen species and subspecies of Aegista are known from South Korea. They were described, based only on shell morphology during 1887–1943 and our knowledge on diversity of Korean Aegista has seldom been updated since then. In this study, we provide the report on the first molecular investigation of diversity of Aegista in South Korea, which unmasked some of overlooked diversity of this group.