WoRMS taxon details
Metaxia excelsa Faber & Moolenbeek, 1991
AphiaID: 419909
AphiaID: 419909
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order) > Triphoroidea (Superfamily) > Triphoridae (Family) > Metaxia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Metaxia Monterosato, 1884 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cerithium exile C. B. Adams, 1850 (Invalid: junior homonym of Cerithium exile Eichwald, 1829; Metaxia excelsa is a replacement name) Metaxia exilis (C. B. Adams, 1850) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] redescription: Fernandes M.R. & Pimenta A.D. (2011) Taxonomic review of Metaxia (Gastropoda: Triphoridae) from Brazil, with description of a new species. Zoologia 28(6): 819–830. [December 2011], available online at http://www.scielo.br/pdf/zool/v28n6/16.pdf [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Aruba [details] Belize [details] Bonaire [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] Curaçao [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Jamaica [details] | ||||||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:419909 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Metaxia excelsa Faber & Moolenbeek, 1991. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=419909 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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