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.

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

Coxiella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Truncatelloidea
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.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.