Metaxia
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| Metaxia | |
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| Metaxia duplicarinata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
| Family: | Triphoridae |
| Genus: | Metaxia Monterosato, 1884 |
| Type species | |
| Murex metaxa Delle Chiaje, 1828 | |
| Species | |
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See text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Cerithiopsis (Metaxia) Monterosato, 1884 | |
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.[1]
