Chloritis vanbruggeni

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

[1] The type locality is Indonesia, Central Sulawesi, Pulau [Island] Peleng, Gunung [Mount] Tatarandang, near village at foot of the mountain in low vegetation.

[1] Shell is solid, of a light ochre color, biconcave, regularly striated with very fine axial riblets, with numerous periostracal hairs (visible in this well cleaned sample as hair pits), covering the whole surface.

[1] The umbilicus is deep, and very small (about 1/20 of the width of the shell) and partly hidden by the expanded columellar side of the peristome.

[1] The two ends are connected by an extremely thick callus, forming a very strong and quite sharp arcuate tooth on the body of the penultimate whorl.

Apical, apertural and umbilical view of the shell of the holotype of Chloritis vanbruggeni . The width of the shell is 21.7 mm.