Chloritis balatensis
Species of gastropod
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Chloritis balatensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.
| Chloritis balatensis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Chloritis |
| Species: | C. balatensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Chloritis balatensis | |
| Synonyms | |
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Helix (Chloritis) balatensis Kobelt, 1896 | |
Distribution
Shell description
The shell is large for the genus Chloritis. It is brown, hairless, not completely flat, umbilicated. The ends of the peristome are connected with a thin callus.[2] The width of the shell is 40–46 mm.[2]
The species was described from only one specimen (“ein tadellos erhaltenes Stück”), which is the holotype by monotypy, stored in the Staatliche Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany, number 10199.[2]
