| Chloritis | |
|---|---|
| three views of the shell of Chloritis biomphala | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Camaeninae |
| Genus: | Chloritis Beck, 1837[1] |
Chloritis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in 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.[2]
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.[2] The first whorls are quite narrow, rounded, the apical ones with regularly arranged granules or hair pits.[2] Last whorl is widened suddenly, with a more or less open umbilicus.[2] The aperture is lunate. The peristome is reflected, connected in most cases by a thin callus.[2]
Some researchers divided the genus Chloritis in a number of rather poorly defined subgenera, or even consider these subgenera as genera.[2] The characters used for these separations are only shell features; unfortunately from only a few species the anatomy is known.[2] Here the more conservative systematic classification (only one genus Chloritis) is followed as proposed by Vaught (1989).[2][3]
Species within the genus Chloritis include:
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