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 [1]
Type species
Bulimus thompsoniiL. 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)

References

1. Strebel (1910). Abh. Naturw. Ver. Hamburg19(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. 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
4. 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

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