Metaxia
| Metaxia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda Informal group Ptenoglossa |
| Superfamily: | Triphoroidea |
| Family: | Triphoridae |
| Genus: | Metaxia Monterosato, 1884 |
| Type species | |
| Murex metaxa Delle Chiaje, 1828 | |
| Species | |
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See text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Cerithiopsis (Metaxia) Monterosato, 1884 | |
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 diadema Bartsch, 1907
- Metaxia duplicarinata (Powell, 1940)
- Metaxia espinosai Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 1992
- Metaxia exaltata (Powell, 1930)
- Metaxia excelsa Faber & Moolenbeek, 1991
- Metaxia fuscoapicata Thiele, 1930
- Metaxia gongyloskymnus Fernandes & Pimenta, 2011
- 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 bacilla [sic] : synonym of Metaxia bacillum (Issel, 1869) (misspelling of Metaxia bacillum (Issel, 1869) )
- Metaxia exilis (C. B. Adams, 1850): synonym of Metaxia excelsa Faber & Moolenbeek, 1991
- 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
- Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526; note: type species fixation under Art. 70.3
External links
- Monterosato T. A. (di) (1884). Nomenclatura generica e specifica di alcune conchiglie mediterranee. Palermo, Virzi, 152 pp
- Dall W.H. 1889. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXIX. Report on the Mollusca. Part 2, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College, 18: 1-492, pls. 10-40
- Marshall B.A. (1977). The dextral triforid genus Metaxia in the south-west Pacific. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 4(2): 111-117
- Bouchet, P. (1985). Les Triphoridae de Méditerranée et du proche Atlantique (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Lavori, Società Italiana di Malacologia. 21: 5-58
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