| Chloritis planorbina | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Chloritis |
| Species: | C. planorbina |
| Binomial name | |
| Chloritis planorbina Haas, 1912 | |
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. The species has been described after two specimens and it has not been recorded again.
Shell description
The shell is moderately in size for the genus, without hairs and brownish corneous. The spire is somewhat impressed. The shell is umbilicated. The ends of the peristome are connected by a thin callus. The width of the shell is 19.5–24 mm.
References
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- 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.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Chloritis planorbina | |