''Chloritis gruneri'' is a
species of air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
, a
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusc
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
in the family
Camaenidae.
Distribution
The type locality is unknown.
Distribution include
Kendari,
Sulawesi
Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...
.
Shell description
The
shell is large for the genus, brown, without hairs, somewhat elevated
spire, umbilicated, the ends of the peristome connected with a strong, white callus bearing a more or less conspicuous tooth.
The width of the shell is 34–45 mm.
References
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[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
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Further reading
* Zilch A. (1966). "Die Typen und Typoide des Natur-Museums Senckenberg, 35: Mollusca, Camaenidae (5)". ''
Archiv für Molluskenkunde'' 95: 293-319, pls 1-5.
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Camaenidae
Gastropods described in 1845