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Kora Simone 2012

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Laboratório de Malacologia, Museu de Ciências Naturais da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais.

Description

Kora Simone, 2012

Kora corallina Simone, 2012 (type species)

Holotype: Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo (MZSP) HTMZSP 103910.

Type locality: Santa Maria da Vitória, Bahia, Brazil (Simone, 2012).

Kora Simone, 2012, was characterized by the author as: shell fusiform in shape with narrow umbilicus, strongly deflected peristome and tall somewhat-turriform spire; protoconch simple, paucispiral, ornamented by scant axial cords umbilicus; peristome somewhat distal from spire longitudinal axis, thus being deflected; and inner lip with strong, oblique tooth at mid-level. The genus was systematically placed in Orthalicidae sensu Bouchet et al. (2005).

Geographic distribution: Bahia and Minas Gerais states, Brazil.

Notes

Published as part of Pena, Meire Silva, 2024, Notes on Kora and description of a new species from Minas Gerais, Southeast Brazil (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Stylommatophora), pp. 1-11 in Zoologia (e 23059) (e 23059) 41 on page 2, DOI: 10.1590/S1984-4689.v41.e23059, http://zenodo.org/record/13176730

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MZSP
Material sample ID
HTMZSP 103910
Scientific name authorship
Simone
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Bulimulidae
Genus
Kora
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Kora Simone, 2012 sec. Pena, 2024

References

  • Simone LRI (2012) Taxonomical study on a sample of pulmonates from Santa Maria da Vitoria, Bahia, Brazil, with description of a new genus and four new species (Mollusca: Orthalicidae and Megalobulimidae). Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia 52 (36): 431 - 439. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0031 - 10492012021600001
  • Bouchet P, Rocroi JP, Fryda J, Hausdorf B, Ponder W, Valdes A, Waren A (2005) Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47 (1 - 2): 1 - 397.