Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Caenogastropoda incertae sedis > Superfamily Cerithioidea > Family Planaxidae > Subfamily Planaxinae

Planaxis Lamarck, 1822

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Planaxis savignyi Deshayes, 1844

Literature

original description	Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome septième, 711 pp. Paris, published by the author.
additional source	Smith, E. A. (1872). A list of the species of the genus Planaxis, with descriptions of eleven new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 4, 9: 37-47.
additional source	Sowerby, G. B. II. (1884). Planaxis Lamarck. In: G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of Genera of Shells, Vol. 5(41-42): 171-177, pls 483-484. London, privately published.
additional source	Sowerby, G. B. II. (1877). Monograph of the genus Planaxis. In: Conchologia iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 20, pls 1-5. L. Reeve, London. [1877, no month date].

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Planaxis Lamarck, 1822. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138355