Kara is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Orthalicidae.[2][3]
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| Shell of Kara thompsonii (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Genus: | Kara |
| Type species | |
| Bulimus thompsonii L. Pfeiffer, 1845 | |
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Thaumastus (Kara) Strebel, 1910 | |
Kara was previously a subgenus of Thaumastus; it was elevated to genus level in 2011.[2]
Species
editSpecies within the genus Kara include:
- Kara cadwaladeri (Pilsbry, 1930)
- Kara indentata (da Costa, 1901)
- Kara ortiziana (F. Haas, 1955)
- Kara thompsonii (Pfeiffer, 1845) - type species of the (sub)genus Kara[4][2]
- Thaumastus thompsonoides Oberwimmer, 1931[4]
- Kara viriata (Morelet, 1863)
- Kara yanamensis (Morelet, 1863)
References
edit- ^ Strebel (1910). Abh. Naturw. Ver. Hamburg 19(3): 16, 20.
- ^ a b c Breure A. S. H. (2011) "Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Royal Belgian Institute of Sciences, Brussels, with descriptions of two new species". ZooKeys 101: 1–50. doi:10.3897/zookeys.101.1133.
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Kara Strebel, 1910. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995397 on 2022-09-26
- ^ a b Breure A. S. H. & Borrero F. J. (2008). "An annotated checklist of the land snail family Orthalicidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orthalicoidea) in Ecuador, with notes on the distribution of the mainland species. Zootaxa 1768: 1-40. abstract.
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
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