Kara | |
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Shell of Kara thompsonii (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura ContentsSigmurethra |
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Genus: | Kara |
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 within the genus Kara include: