Chloritis

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.^[3] The first whorls are quite narrow, rounded, the apical ones with regularly arranged granules or hair pits.^[3] Last whorl is widened suddenly, with a more or less open umbilicus.^[3] The aperture is lunate. The peristome is reflected, connected in most cases by a thin callus.^[3]

Some researchers divided the genus Chloritis in a number of rather poorly defined subgenera, or even consider these subgenera as genera.^[3] The characters used for these separations are only shell features; unfortunately from only a few species the anatomy is known.^[3] Here the more conservative systematic classification (only one genus Chloritis) is followed as proposed by Vaught (1989).^[3][4]

Species within the genus Chloritis include:

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