Kara (gastropod)

Kara is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Orthalicidae.

Kara was previously a subgenus of Thaumastus; it was elevated to genus level in 2011.

Species

Species within the genus Kara include:

• Kara cadwaladeri <small>(Pilsbry, 1930)</small>
• Kara indentata <small>(da Costa, 1901)</small>
• Kara ortiziana <small>(F. Haas, 1955)</small>
• Kara thompsonii <small>(Pfeiffer, 1845)</small> - type species of the (sub)genus Kara
• Thaumastus thompsonoides <small>Oberwimmer, 1931</small>
• Kara viriata <small>(Morelet, 1863)</small>
• Kara yanamensis <small>(Morelet, 1863)</small>

References

• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 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