{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Speciesbox | image = | genus = Chloritis | species = balatensis |authority = (Kobelt, 1896)<ref>Kobelt W. (1896). "Schnecken von N.O. Celebes und Banggai". ''Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und Antropologisch-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden'' '''6'''(5): 1-4.</ref> | synonyms = ''Helix'' (''Chloritis'') ''balatensis'' Kobelt, 1896 }}

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

== Distribution == The type locality for this species is described as ''Balante auf Celebes'', in Sulawesi, Indonesia.<ref name="Maassen 2009"/>

== Shell description == The shell is large for the genus ''Chloritis''. It is brown, hairless, not completely flat, umbilicated. The ends of the peristome are connected with a thin callus.<ref name="Maassen 2009"/> The width of the shell is 40–46&nbsp;mm.<ref name="Maassen 2009"/>

The species was described from only one specimen (“ein tadellos erhaltenes Stück”), which is the holotype by monotypy, stored in the Staatliche Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany, number 10199.<ref name="Maassen 2009"/>

[[File:Chloritis balatensis shell.png|left|thumb|upright=3|Apical, apertural and umbilical view of the shell of the holotype of ''Chloritis balatensis''. The width of the shell is 41 mm.]] {{clear|left}}

==References== This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference.<ref name="Maassen 2009">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''' [http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a11 HTM] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116203632/http://www.zoologischemededelingen.nl/83/nr03/a11 |date=2014-01-16 }}.</ref> {{Reflist}}

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Category:Camaenidae Category:Gastropods described in 1896 Category:Taxa named by Wilhelm Kobelt