''Kora rupestris'' is a
species 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 ...
mollusc
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
in the family
Bulimulidae.
Distribution
''Kora rupestris'' occurs in
Carinhanha
Carinhanha is a municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil. Carinhanha covers , and has a population of 29,070 with a population density of 12 inhabitants per square kilometer. It is located on the banks of the Rio São ...
,
Serra do Ramalho and
Coribe municipalities, in
Bahia,
Brazil.
References
Bulimulidae
Gastropods described in 2016
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