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Genus of gastropods
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.
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Species
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
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