Chloritis
| Chloritis | |
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| 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]
- ↑ (Latin) Beck H. (1837). Index molluscorum praesentis aevi musei principis augustissimi Christiani Frederici 1-124. Hafniae. page 29.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 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.
- ↑ Vaught K. C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca: i-xii, 1-195. American Malacologists, Inc., Melbourne, Florida, USA.