Chloritis

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Chloritis
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three views of the shell of Chloritis biomphala
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Helicoidei
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Chloritis
Beck, 1837 [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • Chloritis (Chloritis) H. Beck, 1837 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Chloritis (Eustomopsis) Gude, 1906· accepted, alternate representation
  • Chloritis (Trichochloritis) Pilsbry, 1891 · accepted, alternate representation
  • ErigoneAlbers, 1850
  • EustomopsisGude, 1906
  • Eustomopsis (Verdichloritis)Clench, 1957 (junior synonym)
  • HelerigoneStrand, 1910
  • Helix (Chloritis) Beck, 1837 (original rank)
  • Helix (Erigone)Albers, 1850 (Invalid: junior homonym of ErigoneAudouin, 1826 [Arachnida])
  • ParvishebaIredale, 1958 (junior synonym)
  • ShebaIredale, 1941 (invalid: junior homonym of ShebaBaird, 1860 [Mollusca])
  • VerdichloritisClench, 1957 (junior synonym)

Chloritis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae. [2]

Contents

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. [3]

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. [3] The first whorls are quite narrow, rounded, the apical ones with regularly arranged granules or hair pits. [3] Last whorl is widened suddenly, with a more or less open umbilicus. [3] The aperture is lunate. The peristome is reflected, connected in most cases by a thin callus. [3]

Species

Some researchers divided the genus Chloritis in a number of rather poorly defined subgenera, or even consider these subgenera as genera. [3] The characters used for these separations are only shell features; unfortunately from only a few species the anatomy is known. [3] Here the more conservative systematic classification (only one genus Chloritis) is followed as proposed by Vaught (1989). [3] [4]

Species within the genus Chloritis include:

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References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference. [3]

  1. ↑ (in Latin) Beck H. (1837). Index molluscorum praesentis aevi musei principis augustissimi Christiani Frederici 1-124. Hafniae. page 29.
  2. 1 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 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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