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
Species within the genus Fonscochlea include:
subgenus Fonscochlea
subgenus Wolfgangia Ponder, Hershler & Jenkins 1989[1]
References
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^ 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.
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^ 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 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.
