Kora | |
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Shell of Kora corallina (paratype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Suborder: | Helicina |
Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
Family: | Bulimulidae |
Genus: | Kora Simone, 2012 [1] |
Type species | |
Kora corallinaSimone, 2012 |
Kora is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, a pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bulimulidae. [2] [3]
The generic name Kora is a contraction of a Latin word Corona, that means "crown", because the aperture resemble the crown. [1] The first letter is changed from C to K, because the generic name Cora is preoccupied as a genus of damselflies. [1]
The genus was described with one species Kora corallina classified in the family Orthalicidae in 2012. [1] Later there were added three newly described species to the genus Kora in 2015. [4] There was added another new species to the genus Kora in 2016, while two species were moved to the genus Drymaeus , resulting in three species currently classified within the genus Kora. [2] Kora was also moved from family Orthalicidae to Bulimulidae in 2016. [2]
Species within the genus Kora include:
Bulimulidae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to large, air-breathing, tropical and sub-tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.
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Kora corallina is a species of a tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bulimulidae.