Metaxia
| Metaxia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda Informal group Ptenoglossa |
| Superfamily: | Triphoroidea |
| Family: | Triphoridae |
| Genus: | Metaxia Monterosato, 1884 |
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Metaxia is a genus of minute sea snails with right-handed shell-coiling, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Triphoridae, which are mostly left-handed in shell-coiling. [1]
Species
Species within the genus Metaxia are as follows:
- Metaxia abrupta (Watson, 1880)
- Metaxia albicephala Kay, 1979
- Metaxia bacillum (Issel, 1869)
- Metaxia brunnicephala Kay, 1979
- Metaxia carinapex Van der Linden, 1998
- Metaxia convexa (Carpenter, 1856)
- Metaxia duplicarinata (Powell, 1940)
- Metaxia espinosai Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 1992
- Metaxia exaltata (Powell, 1930)
- Metaxia excelsa Faber & Moolenbeek, 1991
- Metaxia fuscoapicata Thiele, 1930
- Metaxia hapax Van der Linden, 1998
- Metaxia incerta Fernandes & Rolán, 1988
- Metaxia kermadecensis B.A. Marshall, 1977
- Metaxia maoria (Finlay, 1930)
- Metaxia metaxa (delle Chiaje, 1828)
- Metaxia polynesica Rehder, 1980
- Metaxia prompta Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 2008
- Metaxia propinqua Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 2008
- Metaxia propria Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 2008
- Metaxia protolineata (Laseron, 1951)
- Metaxia quadrata Faber, 2010
- Metaxia rugulosa (C. B. Adams, 1850)
- Metaxia solitaria B.A. Marshall, 1979
- Metaxia taeniolata (Dall, 1889)
- Metaxia tricarinata (Pease, 1861)
- Metaxia vicina (C. B. Adams, 1850)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Metaxia metaxae (delle Chiaje, 1828) : synonym of Metaxia metaxa (delle Chiaje, 1828)
References
- ↑ Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2011). Metaxia Monterosato, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138572 on 2011-03-18
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
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