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Metaxia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Triphoroidea

Scientific name
  
Metaxia

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Triphoridae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Similar
  
Triphoridae, Cerithiopsis, Cerithiopsidae, Melanella, Bittium

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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Metaxia


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

    Metaxia Wikipedia
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