Rectaxis

Rectaxis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Testacelloidea
Family: Spiraxidae
Subfamily: Spiraxinae
Genus: Rectaxis
H. B. Baker, 1926[1]
Diversity
species

Rectaxis is a genus of predatory air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Spiraxidae.

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Rectaxis is an area that reaches from Venezuela to Mexico.[2]

Species

Species in the genus Rectaxis include:

References

  1. Baker H. B. (1926). "The Mollusca collected by the University of Michigan-Williamson Expedition in Venezuela – IV". Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool., Univ. Mich. 167: 1-49. page 7.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Thompson F. G. (16 June 2008). "AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE LAND AND FRESHWATER SNAILS OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA". "PART 4 PULMONATA (ACHATINOIDEA-SAGDOIDEA)". accessed 14 January 2011.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Thompson, F. G. (2010). "Four species of land snails from Costa Rica and Panama (Pulmonata: Spiraxidae)". Revista de biologia tropical 58 (1): 195–202. PMID 20411717., PDF.


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