Kara Strebel, 1910

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Avila, Valentin Mogollon, 2016, Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae, ZooKeys 588, pp. 1-199 : 45

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scientific name	Kara Strebel, 1910
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Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Orthalicidae

Genus Kara Strebel, 1910 View in CoL

Thaumastus (Kara) Strebel 1910: 16.

Type species.

Bulimus thompsonii Pfeiffer, 1845, by monotypy.

Diagnosis.

Shell elongate-ovate, imperforate, solid, whorls slightly convex, apex blunt, height up to ca. 70 mm, colour yellowish to (pale) brown, usually with darker axial streaks, protoconch pit-reticulated, teleoconch sculptured with growth striae, sometimes with indistinct spiral impressions, aperture subovate, peristome thin and simple, columellar margin hardly dilated, parietal wall with a thin callus.

Distribution.

Ecuador, Peru.

Habitat.

Presumably living in leaf litter in (secondary) forests.

Phylogenetic data.

Breure and Romero 2012: Kara thompsonii (Pfeiffer, 1845).

Remarks.

This taxon was given generic status by Breure (2011).