Chloritis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Hadrinae of the family Camaenidae.MolluscaBase (2018). Chloritis H. Beck, 1837. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818723 on 2018-12-25
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.
Shell description 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. The first whorls are quite narrow, rounded, the apical ones with regularly arranged granules or hair pits. Last whorl is widened suddenly, with a more or less open umbilicus. The aperture is lunate. The peristome is reflected, connected in most cases by a thin callus.
Species Some researchers divided the genus Chloritis in a number of rather poorly defined subgenera, or even consider these subgenera as genera. The characters used for these separations are only shell features; unfortunately from only a few species the anatomy is known. Here the more conservative systematic classification (only one genus Chloritis) is followed as proposed by Vaught (1989).Vaught K. C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca: i-xii, 1-195. American Malacologists, Inc., Melbourne, Florida, United States.
Species within the genus Chloritis include:
Chloritis abletti Thach & F. Huber, 2018 Chloritis addita I. Rensch, 1935 Chloritis balansai (Morlet, 1886) Chloritis balatensis (Kobelt, 1896) - from Sulawesi Chloritis beddomei Gude, 1906 Chloritis bellonensis (Clench, 1958) Chloritis bifoveata (Benson, 1856) - from West Malaysia Chloritis biomphala (L. Pfeiffer, 1862) - from Sulawesi Chloritis camaratus Dall, 1910 Chloritis caseus (L. Pfeiffer, 1860) Chloritis ceramensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1861) Chloritis circumdata (A.E.J. Férussac, 1821) Chloritis concisa (Férussac, 1823) Chloritis crassula (Philippi, 1844) Chloritis delibrata (Benson, 1836) Chloritis deliciosa (L. Pfeiffer, 1863) Chloritis dentrecasteauxi (E. A. Smith, 1884) Chloritis diplochone Möllendorff, 1898 Chloritis discordialis (Deshayes, 1839) Chloritis durandi (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900) Chloritis eustoma (Pfeiffer, 1857) Chloritis flexuosa (L. Pfeiffer, 1855) Chloritis fraudulenta Gude, 1906: synonym of Sulcobasis fraudulenta (Gude, 1906) Chloritis gabata (Gould, 1844) Chloritis gaymardi (Deshayes, 1831) Chloritis gruneri (L. Pfeiffer, 1845) - from Sulawesi Chloritis helicinoides (Mousson, 1848) Chloritis heteromphalus Pilsbry, 1906 Chloritis holoserica Gude, 1906 Chloritis howesii E. A. Smith, 1896 Chloritis huberi Thach, 2016 (taxon inquirendum) Chloritis impotens Pilsbry & Y. Hirase, 1908 Chloritis johannisi Cilia, 2010 Chloritis khammouanensis Inkhavilay & Panha, 2019 Chloritis klausgrohi Thach & F. Huber, 2017 Chloritis leithi Gude, 1914 Chloritis lemeslei (Morlet, 1891) Chloritis leytensis Möllendorff, 1890 Chloritis macrostoma Gude, 1906 - from Sulawesi Chloritis malayana (Möllendorff, 1887) Chloritis mansonensis Gude, 1906: synonym of Trichochloritis mansonensis (Gude, 1906) (original combination) Chloritis marimberti (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900) Chloritis martensi (L. Pfeiffer, 1861) Chloritis mertensi I. Rensch, 1930 Chloritis mima Fulton, 1899 Chloritis minahassae P. & F. Sarasin, 1899 - from Sulawesi Chloritis molliseta (L. Pfeiffer, 1863) Chloritis nasuta (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1909) Chloritis norodomiana (Morlet, 1883) Chloritis pervicina E. A. Smith, 1897 Chloritis planorbina Haas, 1912 - from Sulawesi Chloritis platytropis Möllendorff, 1894 Chloritis polingi (Clench, 1957) Chloritis procumbens (Gould, 1843) Chloritis propinqua (Pfeiffer, 1857) Chloritis quadrivolvis (Martens, 1865) Chloritis quercina (Pfeiffer, 1857) Chloritis remoratrix (Morlet, 1893) Chloritis sanziana (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1849) Chloritis selenitoides Fulton, 1899 Chloritis siamensis Möllendorff, 1902 Chloritis spinosissima C. Semper, 1880 Chloritis subsulcata Möllendorff, 1894 Chloritis sumbawana B. Rensch, 1930 Chloritis talabensis (Kobelt, 1896) - from Sulawesi Chloritis tenella (L. Pfeiffer, 1862) Chloritis teres Gude, 1906 Chloritis tetragyra Möllendorff, 1897 Chloritis thachi F. Huber, 2018 Chloritis theobaldi Gude, 1914 Chloritis togianensis Maassen, 2009 - from Sulawesi Chloritis transversalis (Mousson, 1857) Chloritis unguiculastra (Martens, 1867) Chloritis ungulina (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species Chloritis vanbruggeni Maassen, 2009 - from Sulawesi Chloritis vinhensis Thach & F. Huber, 2018
References
This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference.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