Shell description
The shell is solid, unicolored light ochre, biconcave, irregularly striated according to some growth lines, with numerous hair pits covering the whole surface. [1] The spire is deeply sunken. [1] The shell has 33⁄4-41⁄2 whorls. [1] Whorls are rounded, first whorls very narrow, the last one very large, and partly embracing the preceding one, distinctly descending in front. [1] The umbilicus is deep, and about 1/8 of the width of the shell. [1] The aperture is crescent, a little oblique, peristome thick and expanded all around and is somewhat reflexed; both ends connected by a quite thin callus. [1] The width of the shell is 17.1-19.9 mm. [1] The height of the shell is 9.5-11.7 mm. [1]
The species may be compared to only a few species showing the same kind of rotating of the penultimate whorl especially, and possessing simultaneously a sunken shell shape. [1] Chloritis bifoveata (Benson, 1856) from West Malaysia is smaller (width is 15 mm), and the spire is much deeper; Chloritis unguiculastra (Martens, 1867) is somewhat larger (width is 22 mm), is smooth without hair or hair pits, and is more regularly coiled; Chloritis ungulina (Linnaeus, 1758) is much larger (width is 44 mm) is smooth without hair or hair pits, has a groove at the base of the penultimate whorl near the umbilicus and the whorls are more flattened, not rounded. [1]
