Aegista gottschei
Aegista gottschei is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Camaenidae. It was first described in 1887 by Otto Franz von Mollendorff as Helix gottschei. The species epithet honours Carl Christian Gottsche who collected this snail in Korea.
Subspecies
Aegista gottschei fusanica- ''Aegista gottschei gottschei''
Description
The diameter of the shell is 11 mm.The shell has a wide umbilicus. It shows delicately oblique striae, and has a membranous costulation, with microscopic spiraling lines. The shell presents a brownish corneous hue. Its contains 6-7 whorls, each gently convex, with the body whorl obtusely angulated and minutely deflected forward. The peristome is thin, modestly expanded, and somewhat reflected.