Chloritis biomphala
Species of gastropod
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Chloritis biomphala is a species of land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.
| Chloritis biomphala | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Chloritis |
| Species: | C. biomphala |
| Binomial name | |
| Chloritis biomphala (L. Pfeiffer, 1862)[1] | |
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Distribution
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.[2] The width of the shell is 17–20 mm.[2]
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).[2] The species has been never recorded again.[2]
