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Chloritis planorbina

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Camaenidae

Scientific name
  
Chloritis planorbina

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Helicoidea

Subfamily
  
Camaeninae

Rank
  
Species

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

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Distribution

The type locality is Roembia, South-eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia. The species has been described after two specimens and it has not been recorded again.

Shell description

The shell is moderately in size for the genus, without hairs and brownish corneous. The spire is somewhat impressed. The shell is umbilicated. The ends of the peristome are connected by a thin callus. The width of the shell is 19.5–24 mm.

References

Chloritis planorbina Wikipedia