''Kora'' is a
genus of
tropical air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
s, a
pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusks in the family
Bulimulidae.
[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]
Distribution
''Kora'' is endemic to endemic central-eastern
Brazil.
Taxonomy
The generic name ''Kora'' is a contraction of a Latin word ''Corona'', that means "crown", because the
aperture resemble the crown.
The first letter is changed from C to K, because the generic name ''
Cora
Cora may refer to:
Science
* ''Cora'' (fungus), a genus of lichens
* ''Cora'' (damselfly), a genus of damselflies
* CorA metal ion transporter, a Mg2+ influx system
People
* Cora (name), a given name and surname
* Cora E. (born 1968), German hi ...
'' is preoccupied as a genus of damselflies.
The genus was described with one species ''Kora corallina'' classified in the family
Orthalicidae in 2012.
Later there were added three newly described species to the genus ''Kora'' in 2015.
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''.
''Kora'' was also moved from family Orthalicidae to Bulimulidae in 2016.
Species
Species within the genus ''Kora'' include:
* ''
Kora corallina
''Kora corallina'' is a species of a tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Bulimulidae.
Taxonomy
The scientific name ''Kora corallina'' is named in honour of Brazilian poet Cora Coralina. ''Kora corallin ...
''
Simone, 2012 - the
type species of the geus ''Kora''
* ''
Kora nigra''
Simone, 2015[Simone L. R. L. (2015). "Three new species of ''Kora'' (Pulmonata, Orthalicidae) from Bahia and Minas Gerais, Brazil". '']Journal of Conchology
The ''Journal of Conchology'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by The Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, covering research in conchology and malacology. It claims to be the world's oldest continuing publication on t ...
'' 42(1): 51–56.
* ''
Kora rupestris''
Salvador & Simone, 2016[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 A'' 9: 1–7. .]
;Synonyms
* ''Kora iracema''
Simone, 2015 is a synonym of ''
Drymaeus iracema
''Drymaeus'' is a large genus of medium-sized air-breathing, tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Peltellinae of the family Bulimulidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Drymaeus Albers, 1850. Ac ...
''
(Simone, 2015)
* ''Kora terrea''
Simone, 2015 is a synonym of ''
Drymaeus terreus''
(Simone, 2015)
References
Bulimulidae
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