Gonaxis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.[3][2]
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Gonaxis |
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Shell of Gonaxis lamottei (holotype at MNHN, Paris) |
Scientific classification ![Edit this classification](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr.svg.png) |
Domain: |
Eukaryota |
Kingdom: |
Animalia |
Phylum: |
Mollusca |
Class: |
Gastropoda |
Order: |
Stylommatophora |
Superfamily: |
Streptaxoidea |
Family: |
Streptaxidae |
Genus: |
Gonaxis Taylor, 1877[1] |
Type species |
Gonaxis gibbonsi Taylor, 1877
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Synonyms[2] |
- Edentulina (Marconia) Bourguignat, 1890 (superseded combination)
- Gonaxis (Gonaxis) J. W. Taylor, 1877· accepted, alternate representation
- Gonaxis (Marconia) Bourguignat, 1890 (junior synonym)
- Gonaxis (Stenomarconia) Germain, 1934· accepted, alternate representation
- Marconia Bourguignat, 1890 (junior synonym)
- Marconia (Stenomarconia) Germain, 1934 (original combination)
- Stenomarconia Germain, 1934
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Distribution of the genus Gonaxis include Equatorial Africa and South Africa:
Species within the genus Gonaxis include:
- Gonaxis abessinicus (Thiele, 1933)
- Gonaxis aethiopicus (Thiele, 1933)
- Gonaxis albidus (L. Pfeiffer, 1845)
- Gonaxis benthencourti (Nobre, 1905)
- Gonaxis blacklocki Connolly, 1928
- Gonaxis bottegoi (E. von Martens, 1895)
- Gonaxis breviculus (E. A. Smith, 1890)
- Gonaxis camerunensis (D'Ailly, 1896)
- Gonaxis costata Verdcourt, 1963 †
- Gonaxis cressyi Connolly, 1922
- Gonaxis cylindricus (K. L. Pfeiffer, 1952)
- Gonaxis denticulatus (Dohrn, 1878)
- Gonaxis elegans (Pickford, 2009) †
- Gonaxis elgonensis (Preston, 1913)
- Gonaxis gibbonsi Taylor, 1877
- Gonaxis gibbosus (Bourguignat, 1890)
- Gonaxis innocens (Preston, 1913)
- Gonaxis jeanneli (Germain, 1934)
- Gonaxis johnstoni (E. A. Smith, 1899)
- Gonaxis kivuensis (Preston, 1913)
- Gonaxis kizinga (Tattersfield, 1999)
- Gonaxis lata (E. A. Smith, 1880)
- Gonaxis latula (Martens, 1895)[5]
- Gonaxis mamboiensis (E. A. Smith, 1890)
- Gonaxis margarita (Preston, 1913)
- Gonaxis masabana (Connolly, 1930)
- Gonaxis maugerae (J. E. Gray, 1837)
- Gonaxis micans (Putzeys, 1899)
- Gonaxis microstriatus (Preston, 1912)
- Gonaxis miocraveni Pickford, 2009 †
- Gonaxis montisnimbae Binder, 1960[6]
- Gonaxis monrovia (Rang, 1831)
- Gonaxis mozambicensis (E. A. Smith, 1880)
- Gonaxis mzinga (Tattersfield, 1999)
- Gonaxis pileolus Connolly, 1928
- Gonaxis prostratus (L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
- Gonaxis pseudotmesis Connolly, 1942
- Gonaxis pupilla (Morelet, 1888)
- Gonaxis recta (Bourguignat, 1890)
- Gonaxis schweitzeri (Dohrn, 1878)
- Gonaxis sudanicus (Preston, 1914)
- Gonaxis translucidus (Dupuis & Putzeys, 1901)[5]
- Gonaxis turbinatus (Morelet, 1867)
- Gonaxis usambarensis Verdcourt[7]
- Gonaxis vitreus (Morelet, 1867)
- Gonaxis vulcani (Thiele, 1911)
- Gonaxis welwitschi (Morelet, 1867)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Gonaxis quadrilateralis Preston, 1910[3] / Gonaxis (Macrogonaxis) quadrilateralis (Preston, 1910)[8] / Macrogonaxis quadrilateralis: synonym of Tayloria quadrilateralis (Preston, 1910) (superseded combination)
- Gonaxis vosseleri Thiele:[4] synonym of Afristreptaxis vosseleri (Thiele, 1911) (superseded combination)
Taylor (1877). Quart. J. Conch. 1: 252.
- Bourguignat, J.-R. (1890). Mollusques de l'Afrique équatoriale de Moguedouchou à Bagamoyo et de Bagamoyo au Tanganika. 1–229, pls 1–8. Book dated 1889, publication date 1890
- Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
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