Cochliopodium

Cochliopodium is a Himatismenida genus.

It has been found in eyewash stations.

It includes:
 * C. actinophorum (Auerbach 1856) Page 1976
 * ?C. ambiguum Penard 1904
 * C. arabianum Tekle, Gorfu & Anderson 2015
 * C. barki Kudryavtsev, Brown et Smirnov 2004
 * C. bilimbosum (Auerbach 1856) Leidy 1879
 * C. clarum Schaeffer 1926
 * ?C. crassiusculum Penard 1905
 * ?C. erinaceum Penard 1902
 * C. gallicum Kudryavtsev & Smirnov 2006
 * C. granulatum Penard 1890
 * C. gulosum Schaeffer 1926
 * C. kieliense Kudryavtsev 2006
 * C. larifeili Kudriavtsev 1999
 * C. maeoticum Kudryavtsev 2006
 * C. megatetrastylus Anderson & Tekle 2013
 * C. minus Page 1976
 * C. minutoidum Kudryavtsev 2006
 * ?C. minutum West 1901
 * ?C. muscorum Wang 1977
 * ?C. obscurum Pen.
 * ?C. papyrum Bovee 1958
 * C. pentatrifurcatum Tekle et al. 2013
 * C. plurinucleolum Geisen et al. 2014
 * ?C. radiosum Biernacka 1963
 * ?C. silvaticum Varga 1935
 * C. spiniferum Kudryavtsev 2004
 * ?C. spumosum Penard 1904
 * C. vestitum (Archer 1871) Archer 1877

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.