Gonaxis

Gonaxis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.[2]

Gonaxis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Streptaxoidea
Family:
Streptaxidae
Subfamily:
Orthogibbinae
Genus:
Gonaxis

Taylor, 1877[1]

Distribution

Distribution of the genus Gonaxis include Equatorial Africa and South Africa:

Species

Species within the genus Gonaxis include:

  • Gonaxis quadrilateralis Preston, 1910[2] / Gonaxis (Macrogonaxis) quadrilateralis (Preston, 1910)[5] / Macrogonaxis quadrilateralis
  • Gonaxis latula (Martens, 1895)[4]
  • Gonaxis translucida (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1901)[4]
  • Gonaxis usambarensis Verdcourt[6]
  • Gonaxis vosseleri Thiele[3]
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References
  1. Taylor (1877). Quart. J. Conch. 1: 252.
  2. Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
  3. Tattersfield P. (1996). Gonaxis vosseleri. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  4. Wronski T. & Hausdorf B. (2010). "Diversity and body-size patterns of land snails in rain forests in Uganda". Journal of Molluscan Studies 76(1): 87-100. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyp048.
  5. Gerlach J. & Bruggen A. C. van (1999). "Streptaxidae Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) of the Seychelles Islands, western Indian Ocean". Zoologische Verhandelingen 328: 1-60. abstract, PDF.
  6. Tattersfield P. (1996). Gonaxis usambarensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.


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