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Kara (gastropod)

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Kara is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Orthalicidae.[2][3]

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Kara
Shell of Kara thompsonii (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Orthalicidae
Genus: Kara
Strebel, 1910[1]
Type species
Bulimus thompsonii L. Pfeiffer, 1845
Synonyms

Thaumastus (Kara) Strebel, 1910

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Kara was previously a subgenus of Thaumastus; it was elevated to genus level in 2011.[2]

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[4][2]
  • Thaumastus thompsonoides Oberwimmer, 1931[4]
  • Kara viriata (Morelet, 1863)
  • Kara yanamensis (Morelet, 1863)

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