Chloritis gruneri
Chloritis gruneri is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Camaenidae.
Chloritis gruneri | |
---|---|
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | |
Phylum: | |
Class: | |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
Superfamily: | |
Family: | |
Subfamily: | Camaeninae |
Genus: | |
Species: | C. gruneri |
Binomial name | |
Chloritis gruneri (L. Pfeiffer, 1845)[1] | |
Synonyms | |
|
Shell description
The shell is large for the genus, brown, without hairs, somewhat elevated spire, umbilicated, the ends of the peristome connected with a strong, white callus bearing a more or less conspicuous tooth.[2] The width of the shell is 34–45 mm.[2]
gollark: *has accidentally doomed mankind*
gollark: Now to gather some xenowyrms and other cool dragons, breed them, and figure out how to somehow get recognition.
gollark: What, so create some arbitrary lineage and call it special?
gollark: But give them special codes or something so everyone knows they *must* be good.
gollark: Alternatively, create a list, and automatically give people on it cheatified nocturnes or some other useless dragon!
References
This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference.[2]
- Pfeiffer L. (1845). "Description of twenty-two new species of landshells, belonging to the collection of Mr H. Cuming". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1845: 63-69.
- 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.
Further reading
- Zilch A. (1966). "Die Typen und Typoide des Natur-Museums Senckenberg, 35: Mollusca, Camaenidae (5)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 95: 293-319, pls 1-5.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.