Biology:Chloritis planorbina

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Short description: Species of gastropod


Chloritis planorbina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
Superfamily:
Family:
Subfamily:
Camaeninae
Genus:
Species:
C. planorbina
Binomial name
Chloritis planorbina
Haas, 1912[1]

Chloritis planorbina is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.

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]

  1. 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.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 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 .

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.

Wikidata ☰ Q5102976 entry