Metaxia
Encyclopedia
Metaxia is a genus
of minute sea snail
s, marine
gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
s in the family
Triphoridae
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Species brought into synonymy :
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of minute sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
Micromollusk
A micromollusk is a descriptive term for a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also reach adult size at very small...
s in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Triphoridae
Triphoridae
Triphoridae are a family of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the informal group Ptenoglossa in the clade Hypsogastropoda. Almost all the species in this family are micromollusks.-Shell description:...
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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)