Spirolaxis
Genus of gastropods
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Spirolaxis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Architectonicidae, the staircase shells or sundials.[1]
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| Spirolaxis | |
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| Shell of Spirolaxis centrifuga (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Infraclass: | "Lower Heterobranchia" |
| Superfamily: | Architectonicoidea |
| Family: | Architectonicidae |
| Genus: | Spirolaxis Monterosato, 1913 |
| Type species | |
| Spirolaxis centrifuga (Monterosato, 1890) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Description
(Original description) The shell is discoidal; its whorls are quadrangular, detached, and solute. [2]
Species
- Spirolaxis argonauta Bieler, 1993
- Spirolaxis centrifuga (Monterosato, 1890)
- Spirolaxis clenchi Jaume & Borro, 1946
- † Spirolaxis cohaerentia Laws, 1944
- Spirolaxis cornuammonis (Melvill & Standen, 1903)
- Spirolaxis cornuarietis Bieler, 1993
- Spirolaxis exornatus Bieler, 1993
- Spirolaxis lamellifer (Rehder, 1935)
- Spirolaxis rotulacatharinea (Melvill & Standen, 1903)
- Synonyms
- Spirolaxis macandrewi (Iredale, 1911): synonym of Spirolaxis centrifuga (Monterosato, 1890)
