Alexania (gastropod)

Alexania
	Shell of Alexania inazawai
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Epitoniidae
Genus:	Alexania; Strand, 1928
Type species
	Alexandria natalensis Tomlin, 1926;
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Alexandria Tomlin, 1926 (nvalid: junior homonym of Alexandria Pfeffer, 1881 [Echinodermata]; Alexania and Tomlinula are replacement names); Habea Kuroda, 1943 (uncertain synonym); Stenacme Pilsbry, 1945 junior subjective synonym; Problitora Wenz, 1939 (uncertain synonym); Tomlinula Strand, 1932 junior subjective synonym;

Alexania is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae, commonly known as wentletraps.^[1]

Distribution

Species of this genus occurs in the Indo-West Pacific; also off Australia and South Africa.

According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following species with valid names are included within the genus Alexania :^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2010). Alexania Strand, 1928 . Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204230 on 2010-12-19

Strand, E. (1928). "Miscellanea nomenclatoria zoologica et palaeontologica. I–II". Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 92A (8): 30–75.
Strand, E. (1932). "Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica. III, IV". Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica. 4 (1): 133–147, 193–196.
Wenz, W (1938–1944). Gastropoda. Teil 1: Allgemeiner Teil und Prosobranchia. xii + 1639 pp. In: Schindewolf, O.H. (Ed.) Handbuch der Paläozoologie, Band 6. Berlin: Bornträger. pp. 1–1639.
Kuroda, T. (1943). "On a new gastropod genus Habea". Venus: 11–14.
Brown, L.G. & Neville, B.D. (2015). "Catalog of the recent taxa of the families Epitoniidae and Nystiellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature". Zootaxa. 3907 (1): 1–188. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3907.1.1.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Pilsbry, H.A. (1945). "Stenacme floridana, an American member of the Amphibolacea". The Nautilus. 58 (4): 112–116.
Kilburn, R.N. (1985). "The family Epitoniidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in southern Africa and Mozambique" (PDF). Annals of the Natal Museum. 27 (1).
Robertson, R. & Habe, T. (1965). "Alexania replaces Habea (Epitoniidae)". The Nautilus. 78 (4): 140–141.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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