Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Caenogastropoda incertae sedis > Superfamily Triphoroidea > Family Triphoridae > Subfamily Metaxiinae

Metaxia Monterosato, 1884

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Metaxia abrupta (R. B. Watson, 1880)
Metaxia bacillum (Issel, 1869)
Metaxia metaxa (Delle Chiaje, 1828)
Metaxia rugulosa (C. B. Adams, 1850)

Literature

original description	Monterosato, T. A. di. (1884). Nomenclatura generica e specifica di alcune conchiglie mediterranee. Virzi, printed for the author, Palermo, 152 pp.
additional source	Marshall, B. A. (1977). The dextral triforid genus Metaxia in the south-west Pacific. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 4 (2): 111-117.
additional source	Bouchet P. (1985). Les Triphoridae de Méditerranée et du proche Atlantique (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Lavori, Società Italiana di Malacologia. 21: 5-58.
subsequent type designation	Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Metaxia Monterosato, 1884. 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:138572