Cochliopa

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Cochliopa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cochliopidae
Genus: Cochliopa
Stimpson, 1865 [1]

Cochliopa is a genus of freshwater snails, specifically cave snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Cochliopidae. [2]

Cochliopa is the type genus of the family Cochliopidae. [2]

This genus is not to be confused with the similar-sounding land snail genus, Cochlicopa .

Species

Species within this genus include:

synonyms:

References

  1. Stimpson W. (1865). "Diagnoses of newly discovered genera of gasteropods, belonging to the sub-fam. Hydrobiinae, of the family Rissoidae". American Journal of Conchology 1: 52-54.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
  3. "Cochliopa lubrica (Müller, 1774)". Discover Life, accessed 14 September 2010.
  4. "Cochliopa perforata Thompson and Hershler, 1991". Discover Life, accessed 14 September 2010.
  5. Hershler R., Liu H.-P. & Lang B. K. (2010). "Transfer of Cochliopa texana to Pyrgulopsis (Hydrobiidae) and description of a third congener from the lower Pecos River basin". Journal of Molluscan Studies76(3): 245-256. doi : 10.1093/mollus/eyq002.