Alexania (gastropod)

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Alexania
Shell of Alexania inazawai
Scientific classification Edit this 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]
  • Alexandria Tomlin, 1926 (nvalid: junior homonym of Alexandria Pfeffer, 1881 [Echinodermata]; Alexania and Tomlinula are replacement names)
  • Habea Kuroda, 1943 (uncertain synonym)
  • Stenacme Pilsbry, 1945 junior subjective synonym
  • Problitora Wenz, 1939 (uncertain synonym)
  • Tomlinula Strand, 1932 junior subjective synonym

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.

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