The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Gastropoda

(Snails & Limpets)

HYDROBIIDAE

Cochliopa texana Pilsbry

Phantom Cave Snail

 

*IMPERILED or SPECIES OF CONCERN

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Synonyms:  Hydrobia texana (Pilsbry)
                                          (Murray & Roy 1968)

Also Listed As:
                   "Cochliopa" texana (Pilsbry)
                                             (Cheatum & Fullington 1971; Burch & Tottenham 1980; Burch 1989)

 

 

 

Distribution Citations

1935 Cheatum
1935 Pilsbry
1935a Pilsbry in Burch 1982

[1968 Murray & Roy]
1969 Dundee & Dundee

[1971 Cheatum & Fullington]
1972 Cheatum Fullington
         Pratt
1973 Harrel
1978 Fullington

 

1980 Burch & Tottenham
[1982 Fullington]
1984 Neck
1989 Burch

1992 Bayer et al

[2003 TCDC]
[2008 NatureServe]

 

 

 

[ ] indicate state record, no specific county or locality indicated

notes:

-Endemic to Texas (TCDC 2003)

*Critically Imperiled (NatureServe 2008; TCDC 2003); Species of Concern (AOBIS 2001)

-Burch & Tottenham (1980) and Burch (1982 & 1989) lists this species as "incertae sedis" and NatureServe (2008) considers it of "questionable taxonomy"

-Thompson (2008) considers Hydrobia texana to be a lectotype of Pyrgophorus spinosus and not a synonym of Cochliopa texana

copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser    
                          2010


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