Volutaxis

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Volutaxis
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: Volutaxis
Strebel & Pfeffer, 1882[1]
Diversity
28 species (in this list)

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

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Volutaxis includes Mexico, Central America, and the Greater Antilles.[2]

Species

There are three[3] subgenera in the genus Volutaxis. Species in the genus Volutaxis include:

Subgenus Volutaxis Strebel & Pfeffer, 1882

  • Volutaxis blandiana (Pilsbry, 1909)[2]
  • Volutaxis cacahuamilpensis (Herrera, 1891)[2]
  • Volutaxis confertecostatus Strebel, 1882[2]
  • Volutaxis delicatus (Pilsbry, 1907)[2]
  • Volutaxis eburneus Thompson, 2010[3]
  • Volutaxis fallax (H. B. Baker, 1940)[2]
  • Volutaxis linearis (Pfeiffer, 1866)[2]
  • Volutaxis livingstonensis (Pilsbry, 1920)[2]
  • Volutaxis longior (Pilsbry, 1920)[2]
  • Volutaxis maya Bequaert & Clench, 1931[2]
  • Volutaxis nitidus Strebel, 1882[2]
  • Volutaxis rhoadsi (Pilsbry, 1899)[2]
  • Volutaxis scalariopsis (Morelet, 1851)[2]
  • Volutaxis scalella (Von Martens, 1898)[2]
  • Volutaxis strebeli (Pilsbry, 1907)[2]
  • Volutaxis subulinus (H. B. Baker, 1940)[2]
  • Volutaxis sulciferus (Morelet, 1851)[2]
  • Volutaxis tenuecostatus Strebel, 1882[2]
  • Volutaxis tenuis (Pfeiffer, 1868)[2]
  • Volutaxis uruapamensis (Pilsbry, 1899)[2]

Subgenus Mirapex Baker, 1939 include one[2] species:

  • Volutaxis enigmaticus (H. B. Baker, 1939)[2]

Subgenus Versutaxis Baker, 1939[2]

  • Volutaxis arctatus (H. B. Baker, 1940)[2]
  • Volutaxis futilis (H. B. Baker, 1939)[2]
  • Volutaxis opeas (H. B. Baker, 1939)[2]
  • Volutaxis odiosus (Pilsbry, 1899)[2]
  • Volutaxis patzcuarensis (Pilsbry, 1899)[2]
  • Volutaxis subgranum (H. B. Baker, 1939)[2]
  • Volutaxis subopeas (H. B. Baker, 1939)[2]

Volutaxis (Mirapex ?) acus (Shuttleworth, 1852) is nomen dubium.[2]

References

  1. Strebel H. & Pfeffer (1882). Beitr. Mezik. Land- u. Süssw. Conch. 5: 119.
  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 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 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 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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