Rectaxis

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Rectaxis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Testacelloidea
Family: Spiraxidae
Subfamily: Spiraxinae
Genus: Rectaxis
H. B. Baker, 1926[1]
Diversity
species

Rectaxis is a genus of predatory air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Spiraxidae.

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Rectaxis is an area that reaches from Venezuela to Mexico.[2]

Species

Species in the genus Rectaxis include:

  • Rectaxis alvaradoi (Goodrich & van der Schalie, 1937)[2]
  • Rectaxis canalizonalis (Pilsbry, 1930)[3]
  • Rectaxis confertestriatus (Strebel, 1882)[2]
  • Rectaxis decussatus Baker, 1926 - type species[2][3]
  • Rectaxis funibus (Goodrich & van der Schalie, 1937)[2]
  • Rectaxis granum (H. B. Baker, 1939)[2]
  • Rectaxis intermedius (Strebel, 1882)[2]
  • Rectaxis pagodus Thompson, 2010[3]
  • Rectaxis paulisculpta (Rehder, 1942)[2][3]
  • Rectaxis pittieri (Von Martens, 1898)[2]
  • Rectaxis rhabdus (Pilsbry, 1907)[2]
  • Rectaxis subnitidus (H. B. Baker, 1939)[2]
  • Rectaxis subtilis (H. B. Baker, 1939)[2]

References

  1. ↑ Baker H. B. (1926). "The Mollusca collected by the University of Michigan-Williamson Expedition in Venezuela – IV". Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool., Univ. Mich. 167: 1-49. page 7.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 Thompson F. G. (16 June 2008). "AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE LAND AND FRESHWATER SNAILS OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA". "PART 4 PULMONATA (ACHATINOIDEA-SAGDOIDEA)". accessed 14 January 2011.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Thompson, F. G. (2010). "Four species of land snails from Costa Rica and Panama (Pulmonata: Spiraxidae)". Revista de biologia tropical 58 (1): 195–202. PMID 20411717. , PDF.


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