Chloritis macrostoma

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

Chloritis macrostoma
Chloritis macrostoma shells
Scientific classification
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Camaeninae
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C. macrostoma
Binomial name
Chloritis macrostoma
Gude, 1906[1]

Distribution

The type locality is Bangaya, off East Sulawesi, Indonesia.[2]

Shell description

The shell is large for the genus, brown, without hairs, completely flat, umbilicated, the ends of the peristome connected with a thin callus.[2] The width of the shell is 37–48 mm.[2]

References

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

  1. Gude G. K. (1906). "Critical remarks on certain forms of Chloritis, with descriptions of twelve new species". Proceedings of the Malacological Society 7: 40-50, pls 1-2.
  2. 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.
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