''Kara'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snails,
terrestrial
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* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk
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s in the family
Orthalicidae.
[Breure A. S. H. (2011) "Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Royal Belgian Institute of Sciences, Brussels, with descriptions of two new species". '']ZooKeys
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'' 101: 1–50. . [MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Kara Strebel, 1910. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995397 on 2022-09-26]
''Kara'' was previously a subgenus of ''
Thaumastus''; it was elevated to genus level in 2011.
Species
Species within the genus ''Kara'' include:
* ''
Kara cadwaladeri''
(Pilsbry, 1930)
* ''
Kara indentata''
(da Costa, 1901)
* ''
Kara ortiziana''
(F. Haas, 1955)
* ''
Kara thompsonii''
(Pfeiffer, 1845) - type species of the (sub)genus ''Kara''
* ''
Thaumastus thompsonoides''
Oberwimmer, 1931[Breure A. S. H. & Borrero F. J. (2008). "An annotated checklist of the land snail family Orthalicidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Orthalicoidea) in Ecuador, with notes on the distribution of the mainland species. '']Zootaxa
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''Magnolia'' is a large genus of about 210 to 340The number of species in the genus ''Magnolia'' depends on the taxonomic view ...
'' 1768: 1-40
abstract
* ''
Kara viriata''
(Morelet, 1863)
* ''
Kara yanamensis''
(Morelet, 1863)
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
External links
Breure, A. S. H. & Araujo, R. (2017). The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the “Comisión Científica del Pacífico.”. PeerJ. 5, e3065
Orthalicidae
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