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Aegista diversifamilia
''Aegista diversifamilia'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk from Taiwan.
==Discovery and naming==
''A. diversifamilia'' was previously identified as being part of the species ''A. subchinensis'', which was known to occur throughout most of Taiwan. In 2003, a paper was published remarking on the morphological and genetic difference between the eastern and western populations of the species. Eventually it was established that the eastern population was a separate species, divided from ''A. subchinensis'' by the Lanyang River.〔
The new species' name is derived from Latin ''diversus'' and ''familia''. The name was chosen in recognition of the same-sex marriage movement in Taiwan and worldwide.〔 Dr. Yen-Chang Lee, co-author of the ''ZooKeys'' paper describing the species,〔 said: "When we were preparing the manuscript, it was a period when Taiwan and many other countries and states were struggling for the recognition of same-sex marriage rights. It reminded us that Pulmonata land snails are hermaphrodite animals, which means they have both male and female reproductive organs in single individual. They represent the diversity of sex orientation in the animal kingdom. We decided that maybe this is a good occasion to name the snail to remember the struggle for the recognition of same-sex marriage rights."
''A. diversifamilia'' was selected as one of the top 10 new species in 2014.
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