Liniaxis

Liniaxis is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Coralliophilinae, the coral snails, within the family Muricidae, the murex snails and rock snails.

Liniaxis
Temporal range: Upper Pleistocene to Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Coralliophilinae
Genus:
Liniaxis

Swainson, 1840
Species

See text

Species

Species within the genus Liniaxis include:

  • Liniaxis elaborata A. & H. Adams, 1863, a synonym of Coralliophila elaborata (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1863)
  • Liniaxis elongata C. F. Laseron, 1955, this may be a synonym of, or a closely related species to the Mipus nodosus complex (A. Adams, 1854) [1]
  • Liniaxis sertata (Hedley, 1903), a synonym of Coralliophila sertata (Hedley, 1903)

References
  1. Seashells of New South Wales : Mipus nodosus

Further reading
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • J. J. Sepkoski. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560


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