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.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
Species Metaxia abrupta (Watson, 1880) Metaxia albicephala Kay, 1979 Metaxia bacillum (Issel, 1869) Metaxia brunneopunctata Raines, 2024 Metaxia brunnicephala Kay, 1979 Metaxia carinapex Van der Linden, 1998 Metaxia convexa (Carpenter, 1856) Metaxia diadema Bartsch, 1907 Metaxia discus M. Fernandes, 2024 Metaxia duplicarinata (Powell, 1940) Metaxia elizabethclinghamae Bakker & Swinnen, 2021 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 quadrilineata (Mayer-Eymar, 1900) Metaxia rapaensis Cecalupo & Perugia, 2022 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