Kara (gastropod)
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
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| Genus: | Kara |
Kara is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Orthalicidae.[2]
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
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
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