''Caldicochlea harrisi'' is a species of freshwater mollusc in the family,

Tateidae Tateidae is a family of very small and minute aquatic snails with an operculum, gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Truncatelloidea.Bouchet, P. (2014). Tateidae Thiele, 1925. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.ma ...

, MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Caldicochlea harrisi (Ponder, Colgan, Terzis, S. A. Clark & A. C. Miller, 1996). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1296983 on 2022-08-06 The species was first described in 1996 as ''Dalhousia harrisi'' by

Winston Ponder Winston Frank Ponder (born 1941) is a noted malacologist born and educated in New Zealand who has named and described many marine and freshwater animals, especially micromolluscs. Education and career Ponder graduated with an MSc, PhD (1968) ...

, Donald Colgan, T. Terzis, Stephanie Clark and Alison Miller. However, the genus name of ''Dalhousia'' had already been used, and thus in 1997, Ponder published the replacement genus name of ''

Caldicochlea ''Caldicochlea'' is a genus of freshwater molluscs in the family, Tateidae, endemic to the mound springs of the Great Artesian Basin. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Caldicochlea Ponder, 1997. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Sp ...

''.

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.

Distribution

It is endemic to the

Dalhousie Springs Dalhousie Springs, also known as Witjira-Dalhousie Springs, is a group of over 60 natural artesian springs located in Witjira National Park on the western fringe of the Simpson Desert, 180 kilometres northeast of Oodnadatta in northern South Aus ...

of the

Great Artesian Basin The Great Artesian Basin (GAB), located in Australia, is the largest and deepest artesian basin in the world, stretching over , with measured water temperatures ranging from . The basin provides the only source of fresh water through much of ...

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).

References

External links

Australian Freshwater Molluscs. Revision 1A: ''Caldicochlea harrisi'' (Ponder, Colgan, Terzis, Clark & Miller, 1996)
(full description) {{taxonbar, from=Q20052610 Taxa named by Winston Ponder Taxa described in 1996 Tateidae