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
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Metaxia abrupta (Watson, 1880)
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Metaxia albicephala Kay, 1979
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Metaxia bacillum (Issel, 1869)
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Metaxia brunnicephala Kay, 1979
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Metaxia carinapex Van der Linden, 1998
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Metaxia convexa (Carpenter, 1856)
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Metaxia diadema Bartsch, 1907
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Metaxia duplicarinata (Powell, 1940)
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Metaxia espinosai Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 1992
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Metaxia exaltata (Powell, 1930)
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Metaxia excelsa Faber & Moolenbeek, 1991
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Metaxia fuscoapicata Thiele, 1930
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Metaxia gongyloskymnus Fernandes & Pimenta, 2011
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Metaxia hapax Van der Linden, 1998
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Metaxia incerta Fernandes & Rolán, 1988
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Metaxia kermadecensis B.A. Marshall, 1977
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Metaxia maoria (Finlay, 1930)
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Metaxia metaxa (delle Chiaje, 1828)
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Metaxia polynesica Rehder, 1980
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Metaxia prompta Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 2008
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Metaxia propinqua Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 2008
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Metaxia propria Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 2008
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Metaxia protolineata (Laseron, 1951)
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Metaxia quadrata Faber, 2010
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Metaxia rugulosa (C. B. Adams, 1850)
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Metaxia solitaria B.A. Marshall, 1979
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Metaxia taeniolata (Dall, 1889)
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Metaxia tricarinata (Pease, 1861)
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Metaxia vicina (C. B. Adams, 1850)
- Species brought into synonymy
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Metaxia bacilla [sic] : synonym of Metaxia bacillum (Issel, 1869) (misspelling of Metaxia bacillum (Issel, 1869) )
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Metaxia exilis (C. B. Adams, 1850): synonym of Metaxia excelsa Faber & Moolenbeek, 1991
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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
