Kara (gastropod)

Kara is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Orthalicidae.[2]

Kara
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Orthalicoidea
Family:
Orthalicidae
Genus:
Kara

Kara was previously a subgenus of Thaumastus; it was elevated to genus level in 2011.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Kara include:

  • Kara thompsonii (Pfeiffer, 1845) - type species of the (sub)genus Kara[3][2]
  • Thaumastus thompsonoides Oberwimmer, 1931[3]

References
  1. Strebel (1910). Abh. Naturw. Ver. Hamburg 19(3): 16, 20.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.


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