Chloritis talabensis

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Chloritis talabensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Chloritis
Species:
C. talabensis
Binomial name
Chloritis talabensis
(Kobelt, 1896)[1]
Synonyms

Helix (Chloritis) talabensis Kobelt, 1896

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

Distribution

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The type locality is Balante auf Celebes, Sulawesi, Indonesia.[2]

The species was described after only one specimen (“ein schönes Stück”), holotype by monotypy stored in the Staatliche Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany, number 10198. The species has been never recorded again since its discovery.[2]

Shell description

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The shell is of moderate size for the genus, brown, with hairs, spire somewhat elevated, umbilicated, the ends of the peristome connected with a thin callus.[2] The width of the shell is 24 mm.[2]

File:Chloritis talabensis shell.png
Apical, apertural and umbilical view of the shell of the holotype of Chloritis talabensis. The width of the shell is 24 mm.

References

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This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference.[2]

  1. ^ (in German) Kobelt W. (1896). "Schnecken von N.O. Celebes und Banggai". Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und Antropologisch-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden 6(5): 1-4. page 2.
  2. ^ a b c d e 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.

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