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| Fonscochlea | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Tateidae |
| Genus: | Fonscochlea Ponder, Hershler & Jenkins, 1989[1] |
| Type species | |
| Fonscochlea accepta Ponder, Hershler & Jenkins, 1989 Ponder, Hershler & Jenkins, 1989 | |
Fonscochlea is a genus of minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Tateidae. The genus is endemic to mound springs in the Lake Eyre supergroup of South Australia.[2]
Species
[edit]Species within the genus Fonscochlea include:
subgenus Fonscochlea
- Fonscochlea accepta Ponder, Hershler & Jenkins, 1989 - type species[1]
- Fonscochlea aquatica Ponder, Hershler & Jenkins, 1989[1]
- Fonscochlea billakalina Ponder, Hershler & Jenkins 1989[1]
- Fonscochlea conica Ponder, Hershler & Jenkins 1989[1]
- Fonscochlea variabilis Ponder, Hershler & Jenkins, 1989[1][2]
subgenus Wolfgangia Ponder, Hershler & Jenkins 1989[1]
- Fonscochlea zeidleri Ponder, Hershler & Jenkins 1989 - type species of the subgenus Wolfgangia[1][2]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Ponder W., Hershler R. & Jenkins B. (1989). "An endemic radiation of hydrobiid snails from artesian springs in northern South Australia: their taxonomy, physiology, distribution and anatomy". Malacologia 31(1): 1-140. page 18.
- 1 2 3 Perez, K. E.; Ponder, W. F.; Colgan, D. J.; Clark, S. A.; Lydeard, C. (2005). "Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of spring-associated hydrobiid snails of the Great Artesian Basin, Australia". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 34 (3): 545–556. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.020. PMID 15683928. PDF Archived 2012-10-07 at the Wayback Machine.
- Ponder W.F., Hershler R. & Jenkins B. (1989). An endemic radiation of hydrobiid snails from artesian springs in northern South Australia: their taxonomy, physiology, distribution and anatomy. Malacologia. 31(1): 1-140.
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