Coxiella (gastropod)

Coxiella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Pomatiopsidae
Subfamily:	Pomatiopsinae[1]
Genus:	Coxiella E. A. Smith, 1894[2]
Diversity
10 species[3]

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

Distribution

The distribution of genus Coxiella includes Tasmania^[3] and Australia: southern Australia, central Australia and northern Queensland.^[4]

Species

Davis (1979)^[3] recognized 10 species (9 in Australia) and one subrecent species Coxiella badgerensis in Tasmania.^[3]

Species within the genus Coxiella include:

subgenus Coxiella

• † Coxiella badgerensis (Johnston, 1879) - subrecent^[3]
• Coxiella exposita Iredale, 1943^[3]
• Coxiella glabra MacPherson, 1957^[3]
• Coxiella glauertii MacPherson, 1954^[3]
• Coxiella minima MacPherson, 1954^[3]
• Coxiella molesta Iredale, 1943^[3]
• Coxiella pyrrhostoma (Cox, 1868)^[3]
• Coxiella striata (Reeve, 1842)^[3]
• Coxiella striatula (Menke, 1843) - type species^[3]

subgenus Coxielladda Iredale & Whitley, 1938^[5]

• Coxiella gilesi (Angas, 1877)^[3]

Ecology

This genus consists of halophilic species which occur in temporal and permanent saline lakes.^[4][6]

Coxiella snails are iteroparous.^[4] When the saline lake dries out, adults of Coxiella are able to survive.^[4]

References

1. ^ Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst. 
2. ^ Smith E. A. (1894). Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 1: 98.
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} 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.
4. ^ ^{a b c d} 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.
5. ^ Iredale T. & Whitley (1938). S. Aust. Nat. 18(4): 66.
6. ^ 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.