Fonscochlea
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Genus: | Fonscochlea |
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Fonscochlea accepta Ponder, Hershler & Jenkins, 1989 |
Fonscochlea is a genus of minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Hydrobiidae.
Genus Trochidrobia is endemic to Lake Eyre supergroup, Australia.[2]
Species
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
- ^ a b c d e f g h 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.
- ^ a b c 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.
- 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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