Chloritis minahassae

Chloritis minahassae
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
Species: C. minahassae
Binomial name
Chloritis minahassae
P. & F. Sarasin, 1899[1]

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

Distribution

Location of Mount Tongkoko, where Chloritis minahassae lives.

The type locality is the peak of the Sudara volcano, Northern Sulawesi; in German language: "Nord Celebes, Gipfel des Vulkans Sudara; Vulkan Lokon; Bone Gebirge".[2]

New records by Maassen (2009)[2] are from northern Sulawesi: Tangkoko Nature Reserve, moss forest at Sudara Vulcano; east Shore Lake Tondok, 12.5 km east of Kotamobagu, 00°43.44’N 124°26.40’E.[2]

Shell description

The shell is small for the genus, brown, with hairs, with impressed spire, umbilicated, the ends of the peristome connected with a thin callus.[2] The width of the shell is 11–13 mm.[2]

References

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

  1. Sarasin P. & Sarasin F. (1899). "Materialien zur Naturgeschichte der Insel Celebes". Band 2: Die Landschnecken von Celebes: I-VIII, 1-248, pls 1-31. Kreidel’s Verlag, Wiesbaden. page 199, plate 25, figs. 250-250b.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 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.
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