Kora jimenezi Simone, 2024

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: MEGASPIRIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Kora jimenezi Simone, 2024

Tamanho médio: 40 mm

Habitat:  bioma de Cerrado, sob rochas, ou fendas rochosas

Ocorrência: Brasil (Minas Gerais)

Localidade Tipo: Minas Gerais, Itacarambi

Altitude: 530 m

Nome original: Kora jimenezi Simone, 2024

Etimologia: o nome da espécie é uma homenagem a David Jimenez, malacólogo norte americano

Zoobank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:105DB150-42A9-4569-952A-2C130DB634FB

Diagnóstico:

(Simone, 2024) “Size about 45 mm, ~2 times longer than wide; lacking dorso-ventral compression. Apex with same color as remaining shell. Subsutural lighter band present. Delicate spiral striae present. Peristome white. Delicate spiral striae present. Aperture occupying ~45% of length and ~70% width. Implantation of outer lip slightly horizontal. Inner lip with high middle fold. Umbilicus narrow.”

Fotos: cortesia Femorale, 2025, TOPOTYPE, 41.8 e 42.3mm

Figura 1: Simone, 2024: (A–E) HOLOTYPE  MZSP 152077 , 43.8 mm

Figura 2: Simone, 2024: (A) Kora corallina HOLOTYPE MZSP 103910; (B) Kora nigra, HOLOTYPE MZSP 106230; (C) Kora rupestris, HOLTYPE MZSP 121416; (D) Kora tupan HOLOTYPE MZSP 161200; (E) Kora ajar, HOLOTYPE MZSP 163700; (F) Kora aetheria, HOLOTYPE MZSP 163400;  (G) Kora jimenezi, HOLOTYPE MZSP 151907; (H) Kora kremerorum, HOLOTYPE MZSP 151809; (I) Kora uhlei, HOLOTYPE MZSP 165720; (J) Kora vania, HOLOTYPE MZSP 165500; (K) Kora curumim, HOLOTYPE MZSP 152077; (L) Koltrora pyrostoma, HOLOTYPE MZSP 163500; (M) Neopetraeus lobbii MZSP 158045; (N) Neopetraeus tessellatus MZSP 158044

Fontes:

Descrição original: Simone LRL (2024) Review of the land snails of the genus Kora from Brazil, with description of eight new species and a new related genus Koltrora, including comparison with two Andean Neopetraeus species (Gastropoda, Eupulmonata, Orthalicoidea). PLoS ONE 19(12):e0315272. disponível online em https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0315272

MolluscaBase: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1784890