Rectaxis

Rectaxis is a genus of predatory air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Spiraxidae.

Rectaxis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Testacelloidea
Family:	Spiraxidae
Subfamily:	Spiraxinae
Genus:	Rectaxis H. B. Baker, 1926[1]
Diversity
species

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Rectaxis is an area that reaches from Venezuela to Mexico.[2]

Species

Species in the genus Rectaxis include:

• Rectaxis alvaradoi (Goodrich & van der Schalie, 1937)[2]
• Rectaxis canalizonalis (Pilsbry, 1930)[3]
• Rectaxis confertestriatus (Strebel, 1882)[2]
• Rectaxis decussatus Baker, 1926 - type species[2][3]
• Rectaxis funibus (Goodrich & van der Schalie, 1937)[2]
• Rectaxis granum (H. B. Baker, 1939)[2]
• Rectaxis intermedius (Strebel, 1882)[2]
• Rectaxis pagodus Thompson, 2010[3]
• Rectaxis paulisculpta (Rehder, 1942)[2][3]
• Rectaxis pittieri (Von Martens, 1898)[2]
• Rectaxis rhabdus (Pilsbry, 1907)[2]
• Rectaxis subnitidus (H. B. Baker, 1939)[2]
• Rectaxis subtilis (H. B. Baker, 1939)[2]

References

1. Baker H. B. (1926). "The Mollusca collected by the University of Michigan-Williamson Expedition in Venezuela – IV". Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool., Univ. Mich. 167: 1-49. page 7.
2. Thompson F. G. (16 June 2008). "AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE LAND AND FRESHWATER SNAILS OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA". "PART 4 PULMONATA (ACHATINOIDEA-SAGDOIDEA)". accessed 14 January 2011.
3. Thompson, F. G. (2010). "Four species of land snails from Costa Rica and Panama (Pulmonata: Spiraxidae)". Revista de Biología Tropical. 58 (1): 195–202. doi:10.15517/rbt.v58i1.5204. PMID 20411717., PDF Archived 2011-06-29 at the Wayback Machine.