Alexania (gastropod)
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Alexania is a genus
of predatory sea snail
s, marine
prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family
Epitoniidae, commonly known as wentletraps.
, the following species with valid names are included within the genus Alexania :
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of predatory sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
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prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Epitoniidae, commonly known as wentletraps.
Species
According to the World Register of Marine SpeciesWorld Register of Marine Species
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, the following species with valid names are included within the genus Alexania :
- Alexania callizona (Habe, 1961)
- Alexania floridana (Pilsbry, 1945)
- Alexania inazawai (Kuroda, 1943)
- Alexania natalensis (Tomlin, 1926)