Kara (gastropod) explained

Kara is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Orthalicidae.^{[1] [2]}

Kara was previously a subgenus of Thaumastus; it was elevated to genus level in 2011.^[1]

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^[1]
• Thaumastus thompsonoides Oberwimmer, 1931^[3]
• Kara viriata (Morelet, 1863)
• Kara yanamensis (Morelet, 1863)

References

• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017

External links

• Breure, A. S. H. & Araujo, R. (2017). The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the “Comisión Científica del Pacífico.”. PeerJ. 5, e3065

Notes and References

1. 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. .
2. 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
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.