Alexania (gastropod)
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| Alexania | |
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| Shell of Alexania inazawai | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Family: | Epitoniidae |
| Genus: | Alexania Strand, 1928 |
| Type species | |
| Alexandria natalensis Tomlin, 1926 | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Alexania is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae, commonly known as wentletraps.[1]
Species of this genus occurs in the Indo-West Pacific; also off Australia and South Africa.