Coxiella (gastropod)

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Coxiella

Diversity [2]
10 species

Coxiella is a genus of aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Tomichiidae. These snails that live in saline lakes, and have gills and an operculum.

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Distribution

The distribution of genus Coxiella includes Tasmania [2] and Australia: southern Australia, central Australia and northern Queensland. [3]

Species

Davis (1979) [2] recognized 10 species (9 in Australia) and one subrecent species Coxiella badgerensis in Tasmania. [2]

Species within the genus Coxiella include:

subgenus Coxiella

subgenus Coxielladda Iredale & Whitley, 1938 [4]

Ecology

This genus consists of halophilic species which occur in temporal and permanent saline lakes. [3] [5]

Coxiella snails are iteroparous. [3] When the saline lake dries out, adults of Coxiella are able to survive. [3]

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References

  1. Smith E. A. (1894). Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 1: 98.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 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.
  3. 1 2 3 4 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.
  4. Iredale T. & Whitley (1938). S. Aust. Nat. 18(4): 66.
  5. 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.