Chloritis planorbina
Chloritis planorbina is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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| Subfamily: | Camaeninae |
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| Species: | C. planorbina |
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Distribution
The type locality is Roembia, South-eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.[2] The species has been described after two specimens and it has not been recorded again.[2]
Shell description
The shell is moderately in size for the genus, without hairs and brownish corneous.[2] The spire is somewhat impressed.[2] The shell is umbilicated.[2] The ends of the peristome are connected by a thin callus.[2] The width of the shell is 19.5–24 mm.[2]
References
This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference.[2]
- Haas F. (1912). "New land and freshwater shells collected by Dr J. Elbert in the Malay Archipelago". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)10: 412-420. page 415.
- Maassen W. J. M. (2009). "Remarks on the genus Chloritis in Sulawesi, Indonesia, with the descriptions of two new species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Camaenidae)". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 HTM Archived 2014-01-16 at the Wayback Machine.
Further reading
- (in German) Zilch A. (1966). "Die Typen und Typoide des Natur-Museums Senckenberg, 35: Mollusca, Camaenidae (5)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 95: 293-319, pls 1-5. Page 295, pl. 7 fig. 9.
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