Caldicochlea harrisi

Caldicochlea harrisi
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Truncatelloidea
Family:	Tateidae
Genus:	Caldicochlea
Species:	C. harrisi
Binomial name
Caldicochlea harrisi (Ponder, Colgan, Terzis, Clark & Miller, 1996)
Synonyms
Dalhousia harrisi Ponder, Colgan, Terzis, S. A. Clark & A. C. Miller, 1996 · unaccepted (original combination)

Caldicochlea harrisi is a species of freshwater mollusc in the family Tateidae.^{[2] [3]}

The species was first described in 1996 as Dalhousia harrisi by Winston Ponder, Donald Colgan, T. Terzis, Stephanie Clark and Alison Miller.^[2][4] However, the genus name of Dalhousia had already been used, and thus in 1997, Ponder published the replacement genus name of Caldicochlea.^[5]

Description

The snails are tiny (adults from 2.3 to 3.8mm) and vary highly in shell shape, making them hard to distinguish on shell morphology from C. globosa, but C. harrisi is usually smaller and more conical.^[6]

Distribution

It is endemic to the Dalhousie Springs of the Great Artesian Basin.^[6]

Habitat

These snails are found in a range of habitats: small cold seeps (20°C), large warm to hot pools (to 43°C), and on the edges of large pools where they are not reachable by catfish (known to eat tateid snails).^[6]

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