Coxiella (gastropod)

This article is about the snail. For the bacteria, see Coxiella (bacterium).

Coxiella
Coxiella molesta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Gammaproteobacteria
Order:	Legionellales
Family:	Coxiellaceae
Genus:	Coxiella E. A. Smith, 1894 [1]
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.

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

• † Coxiella badgerensis (Johnston, 1879) - subrecent ^[2]
• Coxiella exposita Iredale, 1943 ^[2]
• Coxiella glabra MacPherson, 1957 ^[2]
• Coxiella glauertii MacPherson, 1954 ^[2]
• Coxiella minima MacPherson, 1954 ^[2]
• Coxiella molesta Iredale, 1943 ^[2]
• Coxiella pyrrhostoma (Cox, 1868) ^[2]
• Coxiella striata (Reeve, 1842) ^[2]
• Coxiella striatula (Menke, 1843) - type species ^[2]

subgenus Coxielladda Iredale & Whitley, 1938 ^[4]

• Coxiella gilesi (Angas, 1877) ^[2]

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]

References

1. Smith E. A. (1894). Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 1: 98.
2. 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. 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 .