Kora (gastropod)

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Kora
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Shell of Kora corallina (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Megaspiridae
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 Megaspiridae. [2] [3]

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Distribution

Kora is endemic to endemic central-eastern Brazil. [2]

Taxonomy

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

Species within the genus Kora include:

Synonyms

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Simone L. R. L. (2012). "Taxonomical study on a sample of pulmonates from Santa Maria da Vitória, Bahia, Brazil, with description of a new genus and four new species (Mollusca: Orthalicidae and Megalobulimidae)". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 52(36): 431–439. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492012021600001, HTML.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Salvador R. B. & Simone L. R. L. (2016). "A new species of Kora from Bahia, Brazil (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orthalicoidea), with an emended diagnosis of the genus". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A9: 1–7. doi : 10.18476/sbna.v9.a1.
  3. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Kora Simone, 2012. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=874576 on 2021-04-13
  4. 1 2 Simone L. R. L. (2015). "Three new species of Kora (Pulmonata, Orthalicidae) from Bahia and Minas Gerais, Brazil". Journal of Conchology 42(1): 51–56.


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