Coxiella (gastropod)

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.

Coxiella
Scientific classification
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Family:
Tomichiidae
Genus:
Coxiella

Diversity[2]
10 species

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.
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