Aegista accrescens is a species of air-breathing land snails, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod in the family Camaenidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Aegista accrescens (Heude, 1882). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1389837 on 2024-05-08
Subspecies Aegista accrescens accrescens (Heude, 1882) Aegista accrescens initialis (Heude, 1882)
Description The diameter of the shell attains 16.5 mm.
The shell is widely umbilicated. It is thin, pellucid corneous, with a whitish peripheral band. The shell contains seven whorls. These are narrow, slightly convex and slowly increasing. The body whorl is obtusely angulated. The peristome is white and narrowly reflected.G.W. Tryon, Manual of conchology. Second series: Pulmonata vol. II
Distribution This species occurs in China; type locality: Wuchang, Hubei.
References
External links Heude, P. M. (1882–1890). Notes sur les mollusques terrestres de la vallée du Fleuve Bleu. Mémoires concernant l'histoire naturelle de l'Empire chinois. Teng-Chien Yen, Review and Summary of Tertiary and Quaternary Non-Marine Mollusks of China; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Vol. 95 (1943), pp. 267-309+346 Harvard University, Museum of Comparative ZoologyHelix accrescens Heude, 1882
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