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Myxa Hedley, 1903

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Allogastropoda »  family Pyramidellidae

Description

A genus of the Pyramellidae, umbilicate, with few whorls, no columella fold, and the lip produced anteriorly. Type M. exesa.
This genus might be taken for Niso, if it were not for the heterostrophe apex; so that it bears the same relation to Niso as Eulimella does to Eulima.
Hedley, 1903, Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales, in February and March, 1898, Part 2: Mollusca. Part II. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda.
Author: Jan Delsing

Included taxa

Number of records: 1

species Myxa exesa Hedley, 1903

Myxa exesa


Links and literature

EN The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [1149406]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [https://www.irmng.org] [as Myxa Hedley, 1903]
Data retrieved on: 30 November 2019
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