Coxiella (gastropod)
Coxiella is a genus of aquatic snails that live in saline lakes, and have gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiopsidae.
Distribution
The distribution of genus Coxiella includes Tasmania[3] and Australia: southern Australia, central Australia and northern Queensland.[4]
Species
Davis (1979)[3] recognized 10 species (9 in Australia) and one subrecent species Coxiella badgerensis in Tasmania.[3]
Species within the genus Coxiella include:
subgenus Coxiella
- † Coxiella badgerensis (Johnston, 1879) - subrecent[3]
- Coxiella exposita Iredale, 1943[3]
- Coxiella glabra MacPherson, 1957[3]
- Coxiella glauertii MacPherson, 1954[3]
- Coxiella minima MacPherson, 1954[3]
- Coxiella molesta Iredale, 1943[3]
- Coxiella pyrrhostoma (Cox, 1868)[3]
- Coxiella striata (Reeve, 1842)[3]
- Coxiella striatula (Menke, 1843) - type species[3]
subgenus Coxielladda Iredale & Whitley, 1938[5]
- Coxiella gilesi (Angas, 1877)[3]
Ecology
This genus consists of halophilic species which occur in temporal and permanent saline lakes.[4][6]
Coxiella snails are iteroparous.[4] When the saline lake dries out, adults of Coxiella are able to survive.[4]
References
- ^ Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst.
- ^ Smith E. A. (1894). Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 1: 98.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Davis G. M. (1979). "The origin and evolution of the gastropod family Pomatiopsidae, with emphasis on the Mekong river Triculinae". Academy of natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monograph 20: 1-120. ISBN 978-1-4223-1926-0. at Google Books.
- ^ a b c d Williams W. D. & Mellor M. W. (1991). "Ecology of Coxiella (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Prosobranchia), a snail endemic to Australian salt lakes". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 84(1-4): 339-355. doi:10.1016/0031-0182(91)90053-T.
- ^ Iredale T. & Whitley (1938). S. Aust. Nat. 18(4): 66.
- ^ Kameda Y. & Kato M. (2011). "Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 118. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-118.