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Genus of gastropods

Chloritis
three views of the shell of Chloritis biomphala
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Helicoidei
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Chloritis
Beck, 1837
Synonyms
  • Chloritis (Chloritis) H. Beck, 1837 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Chloritis (Eustomopsis) Gude, 1906· accepted, alternate representation
  • Chloritis (Trichochloritis) Pilsbry, 1891 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Erigone Albers, 1850
  • Eustomopsis Gude, 1906
  • Eustomopsis (Verdichloritis) Clench, 1957 (junior synonym)
  • Helerigone Strand, 1910
  • Helix (Chloritis) Beck, 1837 (original rank)
  • Helix (Erigone) Albers, 1850 (Invalid: junior homonym of Erigone Audouin, 1826 )
  • Parvisheba Iredale, 1958 (junior synonym)
  • Sheba Iredale, 1941 (invalid: junior homonym of Sheba Baird, 1860 )
  • Verdichloritis Clench, 1957 (junior synonym)

Chloritis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.

The genus Chloritis is restricted to South-east Asia (from China to India and up to New Guinea) with numerous species having usually small distributional ranges.

Shell description

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

Species

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

Species within the genus Chloritis include:

References

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  1. (in Latin) Beck H. (1837). Index molluscorum praesentis aevi musei principis augustissimi Christiani Frederici 1-124. Hafniae. page 29.
  2. ^ MolluscaBase (2018). Chloritis H. Beck, 1837. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818723 on 2018-12-25
  3. ^ Maassen W. J. M. (2009). "Remarks on the genus Chloritis in Sulawesi, Indonesia, with the descriptions of two new species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Camaenidae)". Zoologische Mededelingen 83 HTM Archived 2014-01-16 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Vaught K. C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca: i-xii, 1-195. American Malacologists, Inc., Melbourne, Florida, United States.
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