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Chloritis biomphala

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Kingdom
  
Class
  
Family
  
Scientific name
  
Chloritis biomphala

Phylum
  
Superfamily
  
Helicoidea

Subfamily
  
Camaeninae

Rank
  
Species

Chloritis biomphala is a species of land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.

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Distribution

The type locality is Seram Island ("in insula Ceram"), Indonesia. Other locality include Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Shell description

The shell has moderate size for the genus, brown, without hairs, completely flat, umbilicated, the ends of the peristome connected with a thin callus. The width of the shell is 17–20 mm.

The species is probably described after more than one specimen (a number is not given in the original description, but in the dimensions 10–11 mm is given for the shell height). The species has been never recorded again.

References

Chloritis biomphala Wikipedia


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