Trypanaxidae

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Trypanaxidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Campaniloidea
Family: Trypanaxidae
Gougerot & Le Renard, 1987[1]

Trypanaxidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Campaniloidea.[2]

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), the family Trypanaxidae has no subfamilies.

Genera

Genera within the family Trypanaxidae include:

  • † Trypanaxis Cossmann, 1889 - the type genus
  • † Alocaxis Cossmann, 1889[3]

References

  1. ↑ Gougerot & Le Renard (1987). Cahires des Naturalistes new series, 42(3): 65.
  2. ↑ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2). 
  3. ↑ Alocaxis. The Paleobiology Database, accessed 16 May 2010.


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