Biology:Caldicochlea globosa

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Short description: Species of freshwater mollusc

Caldicochlea globosa
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Tateidae
Genus: Caldicochlea
Species:
C. globosa
Binomial name
Caldicochlea globosa
(Ponder, Colgan, Terzis, Clark & Miller, 1996)

Caldicochlea globosa is a species of freshwater mollusc in the family, Tateidae, [2] [3] endemic to the Dalhousie Springs of the Great Artesian Basin.[4] The species was first described in 1996 as Dalhousia globosa by Winston Ponder, Donald Colgan, T. Terzis, Stephanie Clark and Alison Miller.[3][5] However, the genus name of Dalhousia had already been used, and thus in 1997, Ponder published the replacement genus name of Caldicochlea.[6]

The snails are tiny (adults from 3-4.6mm) and vary highly in shell shape, making them hard to distinguish on shell morphology from C. harrisi, but C. globosa is usually bigger and more globe shaped.[4]

These snails are found in large warm pools or warm outflows at temperatures from 33-42°C.[4]

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q20052604 entry