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Chloritis macrostoma

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Species of gastropod

Chloritis macrostoma
Chloritis macrostoma shells
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Chloritis
Species: C. macrostoma
Binomial name
Chloritis macrostoma
Gude, 1906

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

Distribution

The type locality is Bangaya, off East Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Shell description

The shell is large for the genus, brown, without hairs, completely flat, umbilicated, the ends of the peristome connected with a thin callus. The width of the shell is 37–48 mm.

References

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  1. Gude G. K. (1906). "Critical remarks on certain forms of Chloritis, with descriptions of twelve new species". Proceedings of the Malacological Society 7: 40-50, pls 1-2.
  2. ^ 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.
Taxon identifiers
Chloritis macrostoma
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