''Chloritis minahassae'' is a
species of air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
, a
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the family
Camaenidae.
Distribution
The
type locality
Type locality may refer to:
* Type locality (biology)
* Type locality (geology)
See also
* Local (disambiguation)
* Locality (disambiguation)
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is the peak of the
Sudara volcano, Northern
Sulawesi
Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...
; in German language: "Nord Celebes, Gipfel des Vulkans Sudara; Vulkan
Lokon; Bone Gebirge".
New records by Maassen (2009)
are from northern Sulawesi:
Tangkoko Nature Reserve, moss forest at
Sudara Vulcano; east Shore
Lake Tondok
A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much lar ...
, 12.5 km east of
Kotamobagu
Kotamobagu is a city in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is the principal centre of the southern part of the province - the Bolaang Mongonow region, which is projected by the Indonesian government to be separated from the rest of North Sulawesi and f ...
, 00°43.44’N 124°26.40’E.
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.
The width of the shell is 11–13 mm.
References
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[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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Camaenidae
Gastropods described in 1899