''Epalxis'' is an extinct
genus of
sea snail
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s, marine
gastropod
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mollusks in the
family Turridae
Turridae is a taxonomic family name for a number of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. MolluscaBase (2018). Turridae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 (1838). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...
, the turrids.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Epalxis Cossmann, 1889 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1321533 on 2020-11-03]
Typespecies
Cossmann stated the type species of ''Epalxis'' to be ''Pleurotoma crenulata''
Lamarck, 1804; however he used the latter name in the sense of Deshayes (1834). ''P. crenulata'' in the sense of Deshayes and Cossmann is in fact ''Pleurotoma ventricosa''
Lamarck, 1804. Brebion
992, Cossmanniana, Hors-série 1
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accepted ''P. ventricosa'' as the type species of ''Epalxis'', and Tracey et al. (2019) accepted Brebion's type species fixation under Art. 70.3 and 86.1.1 of the Code. However, Art. 70.3 cannot be applied retroactively to Brebion's type species fixation. Tracey et al. should have invoked Art. 70.3 in their own right if they chose to do so. For the time being, this leaves ''Pleurotoma crenulata''
Lamarck, 1804, as the type species of ''Epalxis'' by OD.
Species
Species within the genus ''Epalxis'' include:
* † ''
Epalxis bouryi
''Epalxis'' is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Turridae, the turrids.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Epalxis Cossmann, 1889 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species ...
''
Tucker & Renard, 1993
* † ''
Epalxis crenata
''Epalxis'' is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Epalxis Cossmann, 1889 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.m ...
''
(J.G. Bruguière, 179 )
* † ''
Epalxis edwardsi
''Epalxis'' is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Epalxis Cossmann, 1889 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.m ...
''
H.I. Tucker & J. Le Renard
* † ''
Epalxis lima
''Epalxis'' is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Epalxis Cossmann, 1889 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.m ...
''
(F.E. Edwards, 1861)
* † ''
Epalxis multigyrata
''Epalxis'' is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Epalxis Cossmann, 1889 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.m ...
''
(G.P. Deshayes, 1865)
* † ''
Epalxis reticulosa
''Epalxis'' is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Epalxis Cossmann, 1889 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.m ...
''
F.E. Edwards
* † ''
Epalxis symondsi
''Epalxis'' is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Epalxis Cossmann, 1889 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.m ...
''
Tracey & Craig, 2019
* † ''
Epalxis toddi
''Epalxis'' is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Epalxis Cossmann, 1889 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.m ...
''
Tracey & Craig, 2019
* † ''
Epalxis ventricosa
''Epalxis'' is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Epalxis Cossmann, 1889 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.m ...
''
(Lamarck, 1804)
; Species brought into synonymy:
* † ''Epalxis rosenkrantzi''
Hansen, 2019: synonym of † ''
Fusulculus hanseni
''Fusulculus'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Benthobiidae
The Benthobiidae is a taxonomic family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Olivoidea
Olivoidea is a taxonomic superfamily ...
''
Pacaud, 2020 (invalid: secondary junior homonym of ''Fusulculus rosenkrantzi''
(Traub, 1979))
References
* Powell, A. W. B. 1964. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 1. (5): 227-346; 1 (7): 409-454.
* Tracey S., Craig B. & Gain O. (2019). Turridae (Gastropoda, Conoidea) from the late Lutetian Eocene of the Cotentin, NW France: endemism through loss of planktotrophy?. Carnets de Voyages Paléontologiques dans le Bassin Anglo-Parisien. 5: 101-140.
* Pacaud J.M. (2020). Fusulculus hanseni nom. nov., un nouveau nom de remplacement pour Epalxis ? rosenkrantzi Hansen, 2019 non Fusulculus rosenkrantzi (Traub, 1979) (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Benthobiidae). Folia Conchyliologica. 54: 7-11.
External links
Cossmann M. (1889). Catalogue illustré des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris. Annales de la Société Royale Malacologique de Belgique. 24: 3-381, 12 pls.Pacaud J.M. & Le Renard J. (1995). Révision des Mollusques paléogènes du Bassin de Paris. IV- Liste systématique actualisée. Cossmanniana. 3(4): 151-187
Turridae
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