Fonscochlea

Fonscochlea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Hydrobiidae
Genus: Fonscochlea
Ponder, Hershler & Jenkins, 1989[1]
Type species
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

subgenus Wolfgangia Ponder, Hershler & Jenkins 1989[1]

References

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

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