Biology:Chloritis minahassae

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Short description: Species of gastropod


Chloritis minahassae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
Superfamily:
Family:
Subfamily:
Camaeninae
Genus:
Species:
C. minahassae
Binomial name
Chloritis minahassae
P. & F. Sarasin, 1899[1]

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

Distribution

Chloritis minahassae is located in Sulawesi
Chloritis minahassae
Location of Mount Tongkoko, where Chloritis minahassae lives.

The type locality is the peak of the Sudara volcano, Northern Sulawesi; in German language: "Nord Celebes, Gipfel des Vulkans Sudara; Vulkan Lokon; Bone Gebirge".[2]

New records by Maassen (2009)[2] are from northern Sulawesi: Tangkoko Nature Reserve, moss forest at Sudara Vulcano; east Shore Lake Tondok, 12.5 km east of Kotamobagu, 00°43.44’N 124°26.40’E.[2]

Shell description

The shell is small for the genus, brown, with hairs, with impressed spire, umbilicated, the ends of the peristome connected with a thin callus.[2] The width of the shell is 11–13 mm.[2]

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference.[2]

  1. Sarasin P. & Sarasin F. (1899). "Materialien zur Naturgeschichte der Insel Celebes". Band 2: Die Landschnecken von Celebes: I-VIII, 1-248, pls 1-31. Kreidel’s Verlag, Wiesbaden. page 199, plate 25, figs. 250-250b.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 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 .

Wikidata ☰ Q5102975 entry