Chloritis

Chloritis
three views of the shell of Chloritis biomphala
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Camaenidae
Subfamily:	Camaeninae
Genus:	Chloritis Beck, 1837[1]

Chloritis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Camaenidae.

The genus Chloritis is restricted to South-east Asia (from China to India and up to New Guinea) with numerous species having usually small distributional ranges.^[2]

Shell description

The conchological characters of the species belonging to the genus Chloritis are the more or less compact shells, the biconcave or a hardly elevated spire.^[2] The first whorls are quite narrow, rounded, the apical ones with regularly arranged granules or hair pits.^[2] Last whorl is widened suddenly, with a more or less open umbilicus.^[2] The aperture is lunate. The peristome is reflected, connected in most cases by a thin callus.^[2]

Species

Some researchers divided the genus Chloritis in a number of rather poorly defined subgenera, or even consider these subgenera as genera.^[2] The characters used for these separations are only shell features; unfortunately from only a few species the anatomy is known.^[2] Here the more conservative systematic classification (only one genus Chloritis) is followed as proposed by Vaught (1989).^[2][3]

Species within the genus Chloritis include:

• Chloritis balatensis (Kobelt, 1896)^[2] - from Sulawesi
• Chloritis bifoveata (Benson, 1856)^[2] - from West Malaysia
• Chloritis biomphala (L. Pfeiffer, 1862)^[2] - from Sulawesi
• Chloritis gruneri (L. Pfeiffer, 1845)^[2] - from Sulawesi
• Chloritis macrostoma Gude, 1906^[2] - from Sulawesi
• Chloritis minahassae P. & F. Sarasin, 1899^[2] - from Sulawesi
• Chloritis planorbina Haas, 1912^[2] - from Sulawesi
• Chloritis talabensis (Kobelt, 1896)^[2] - from Sulawesi
• Chloritis togianensis Maassen, 2009^[2] - from Sulawesi
• Chloritis unguiculastra (Martens, 1867)^[2]
• Chloritis ungulina (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species^[2]
• Chloritis vanbruggeni Maassen, 2009^[2] - from Sulawesi

References

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

1. ^ (Latin) Beck H. (1837). Index molluscorum praesentis aevi musei principis augustissimi Christiani Frederici 1-124. Hafniae. page 29.
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u} 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.
3. ^ Vaught K. C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca: i-xii, 1-195. American Malacologists, Inc., Melbourne, Florida, USA.