Cochliopodium is a Himatismenida genus.
It has been found in eyewash stations.
It includes:
- C. actinophorum <small>(Auerbach 1856) Page 1976</small>
- ?C. ambiguum <small>Penard 1904</small>
- C. arabianum <small>Tekle, Gorfu & Anderson 2015</small>
- C. barki <small>Kudryavtsev, Brown et Smirnov 2004</small>
- C. bilimbosum <small>(Auerbach 1856) Leidy 1879</small>
- C. clarum <small>Schaeffer 1926</small>
- ?C. crassiusculum <small>Penard 1905</small>
- ?C. erinaceum <small>Penard 1902</small>
- C. gallicum <small>Kudryavtsev & Smirnov 2006</small>
- C. granulatum <small>Penard 1890</small>
- C. gulosum <small>Schaeffer 1926</small>
- C. kieliense <small>Kudryavtsev 2006</small>
- C. larifeili <small>Kudriavtsev 1999</small>
- C. maeoticum <small>Kudryavtsev 2006</small>
- C. megatetrastylus <small>Anderson & Tekle 2013</small>
- C. minus <small>Page 1976</small>
- C. minutoidum <small>Kudryavtsev 2006</small>
- ?C. minutum <small>West 1901</small>
- ?C. muscorum <small>Wang 1977</small>
- ?C. obscurum <small>Pen.</small>
- ?C. papyrum <small>Bovee 1958</small>
- C. pentatrifurcatum <small>Tekle et al. 2013</small>
- C. plurinucleolum <small>Geisen et al. 2014</small>
- ?C. radiosum <small>Biernacka 1963</small>
- ?C. silvaticum <small>Varga 1935</small>
- C. spiniferum <small>Kudryavtsev 2004</small>
- ?C. spumosum <small>Penard 1904</small>
- C. vestitum <small>(Archer 1871) Archer 1877</small>
Recombination and meiosis
The Cochliopodium genome includes genes whose functions are employed in the process of genetic recombination suggesting the possibility of a sexual stage. The genome sequence of Cochliopodium minus contains a complete set of genes necessary for meiosis a key stage of sexual reproduction.
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