Rictaxis
Sign in to saveRictaxis is a genus of minute sea snails or "bubble snails", marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Acteonidae, the "barrel bubble" snails.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderCephalaspidea
- FamilyActeonidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 57
- Family
- Acteonidae
- Collections
- SDNHM, UF, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, USNM, SDSM, CMNH
- Recorded in
- United States, Belgium
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Acteonidae
- Image
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.229028 - Rictaxis punctocaelatus (Carpenter, 1864) - Acteonidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg
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Rictaxis is a genus of minute sea snails or "bubble snails", marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Acteonidae, the "barrel bubble" snails.
The genus name is derived from Latin words, meaning "open mouth", and "axis" referring to the columella.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rictaxis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.