Kara (gastropod)

Kara
	Shell of Kara thompsonii (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
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; Strebel, 1910
Type species
	Bulimus thompsonii L. Pfeiffer, 1845;
Synonyms
	Thaumastus (Kara) Strebel, 1910

Kara is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Orthalicidae.^[2]^[3]

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

Species

Species 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)

^ 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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