Metaxia is a genus of minute sea snails with right-handed shell-coiling, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Triphoridae, which are mostly left-handed in shell-coiling.

Species

  • Metaxia abrupta (Watson, 1880)
  • Metaxia albicephala Kay, 1979
  • Metaxia bacillum (Issel, 1869)
  • Metaxia brunneopunctata Raines, 2024
  • Metaxia brunnicephala Kay, 1979
  • Metaxia carinapex Van der Linden, 1998
  • Metaxia convexa (Carpenter, 1856)
  • Metaxia diadema Bartsch, 1907
  • Metaxia discus M. Fernandes, 2024
  • Metaxia duplicarinata (Powell, 1940)
  • Metaxia elizabethclinghamae Bakker & Swinnen, 2021
  • Metaxia espinosai Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 1992
  • Metaxia exaltata (Powell, 1930)
  • Metaxia excelsa Faber & Moolenbeek, 1991
  • Metaxia fuscoapicata Thiele, 1930
  • Metaxia gongyloskymnus Fernandes & Pimenta, 2011
  • Metaxia hapax Van der Linden, 1998
  • Metaxia incerta Fernandes & Rolán, 1988
  • Metaxia kermadecensis B.A. Marshall, 1977
  • Metaxia maoria (Finlay, 1930)
  • Metaxia metaxa (delle Chiaje, 1828)
  • Metaxia polynesica Rehder, 1980
  • Metaxia prompta Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 2008
  • Metaxia propinqua Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 2008
  • Metaxia propria Rolán & Fernández-Garcés, 2008
  • Metaxia protolineata (Laseron, 1951)
  • Metaxia quadrata Faber, 2010
  • † Metaxia quadrilineata (Mayer-Eymar, 1900)
  • Metaxia rapaensis Cecalupo & Perugia, 2022
  • Metaxia rugulosa (C. B. Adams, 1850)
  • Metaxia solitaria B.A. Marshall, 1979
  • Metaxia taeniolata (Dall, 1889)
  • Metaxia tricarinata (Pease, 1861)
  • Metaxia vicina (C. B. Adams, 1850)

Species brought into synonymy

  • Metaxia bacilla [sic] : synonym of Metaxia bacillum (Issel, 1869) (misspelling of Metaxia bacillum (Issel, 1869) )
  • Metaxia exilis (C. B. Adams, 1850): synonym of Metaxia excelsa Faber & Moolenbeek, 1991
  • Metaxia metaxae (delle Chiaje, 1828) : synonym of Metaxia metaxa (delle Chiaje, 1828)
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
  • Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526; note: type species fixation under Art. 70.3

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