''Coahuilix'' is a

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of small

freshwater Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. Although the term specifically excludes seawater and brackish water, it does include ...

snail A snail is, in loose terms, a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gastro ...

s that have an operculum, aquatic

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s in the family

Cochliopidae Cochliopidae is a family of small freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks. Paludestrina d'Orbigny, 1840 is an archaic synonym, and has been placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Names by ICZN ...

.Bouchet, P. (2014). Coahuilix D. W. Taylor, 1966. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=722549 on 2014-11-16

Species

Species within the genus ''Coahuilix'' include: *''

Coahuilix hubbsi The coahuilix de Hubbs snail, scientific name ''Coahuilix hubbsi'', is a species of small freshwater snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae. This species is endemic to Mexico Mexico (Spanish l ...

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, 1966 Coahuilix de hubbs snail *'' Coahuilix landyei'' Hershler, 1985

References

* Hershler R. & Thompson F.G. (1992) ''A review of the aquatic gastropod subfamily Cochliopinae (Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae).'' Malacological Review suppl. 5: 1-140. Cochliopidae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Cochliopidae-stub