Chloritis balatensis

Chloritis balatensis
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
Species:	C. balatensis
Binomial name
Chloritis balatensis (Kobelt, 1896)[1]
Synonyms
Helix (Chloritis) balatensis Kobelt, 1896

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

Distribution

The type locality for this species is described as Balante auf Celebes, in Sulawesi, Indonesia.^[2]

Shell description

The shell is large for the genus Chloritis. It is brown, hairless, not completely flat, umbilicated. The ends of the peristome are connected with a thin callus.^[2] The width of the shell is 40–46 mm.^[2]

The species was described from only one specimen (“ein tadellos erhaltenes Stück”), which is the holotype by monotypy, stored in the Staatliche Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany, number 10199.^[2]

Apical, apertural and umbilical view of the shell of the holotype of Chloritis balatensis. The width of the shell is 41 mm.

References

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

1. ^ Kobelt W. (1896). "Schnecken von N.O. Celebes und Banggai". Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und Antropologisch-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden 6(5): 1-4.
2. ^ ^{a b c d e} 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.