Kora corallina | |
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Shell of Kora corallina (paratype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Bulimulidae |
Genus: | Kora |
Species: | K. corallina |
Binomial name | |
Kora corallina Simone, 2012 [1] | |
Kora corallina is a species of a tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bulimulidae.
The scientific name Kora corallina is named in honour of Brazilian poet Cora Coralina. [1] Kora corallina is the type species of the genus Kora. [1] It was originally classified with the family Orthalicidae [1] and it was moved to the family Bulimulidae in 2016. [2]
Kora corallina occurs in Santa Maria da Vitória municipality, in Bahia, Brazil. [1] [3]
This land snail occurs in Bahia, Brazil.
Cora Coralina is the pseudonym of the Brazilian writer and poet Anna Lins dos Guimarães Peixoto Bretas. She is considered one of the most important Brazilian writers, Her first book was published in June 1965.
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Kora is a genus of tropical air-breathing land snails, a pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bulimulidae.