Seychellaxis

Seychellaxis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Streptaxoidea
Family: Streptaxidae
Subfamily: Orthogibbinae
Genus: Seychellaxis
Schileyko, 2000
Species:
S. souleyetianus
Binomial name
Seychellaxis souleyetianus
(Petit, 1841)

Seychellaxis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.[2] It contains only Seychellaxis souleyetianus.[1]

Distribution

The genus is found only in the Seychelles.[2][1]

Species

The genus Seychellaxis include only one species:

  • Seychellaxis souleyetianus (Petit de la Saussaye, 1841)[1][3] Synonyms were Gonaxis souleyetianus (Petit, 1841) and Streptaxis souleyetianus (Petit, 1841).

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Gerlach, J. (2009). "Seychellaxis souleyetianus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009 e.T168144A6459425. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T168144A6459425.en. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  2. 1 2 Sutcharit C.; Naggs F.; Wade C. M.; Fontanilla I.; Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 160: 1–16. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
  3. ↑ "Seychellaxis souleyetianus". WMSDB. Retrieved 28 August 2017.