Chloritis planorbina

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

Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Order:Stylommatophora
Family:Camaenidae
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Chloritis planorbina
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Chloritis
Species:
C. planorbina
Binomial name
Chloritis planorbina
Haas, 1912[1]
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Distribution

The type locality is Roembia, South-eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.[2] The species has been described after two specimens and it has not been recorded again.[2]

Shell description

The shell is moderately in size for the genus, without hairs and brownish corneous.[2] The spire is somewhat impressed.[2] The shell is umbilicated.[2] The ends of the peristome are connected by a thin callus.[2] The width of the shell is 19.5–24 mm.[2]

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