Volutaxis
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Volutaxis is a genus of land snail
Land snail
A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...

s in the family Spiraxidae
Spiraxidae
Spiraxidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the clade Eupulmonata .- 2005 taxonomy :...

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Distribution

Distribution of the genus Volutaxis include Mexico, Central America and the Greater Antilles
Greater Antilles
The Greater Antilles are one of three island groups in the Caribbean. Comprising Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola , and Puerto Rico, the Greater Antilles constitute almost 90% of the land mass of the entire West Indies.-Greater Antilles in context :The islands of the Caribbean Sea, collectively known as...

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Species

There are three subgenera in the genus Volutaxis and species in the genus Volutaxis include:

subgenus Volutaxis Strebel & Pfeffer, 1882
  • Volutaxis blandiana (Pilsbry, 1909)
  • Volutaxis cacahuamilpensis (Herrera, 1891)
  • Volutaxis confertecostatus Strebel, 1882
  • Volutaxis delicatus (Pilsbry, 1907)
  • Volutaxis eburneus Thompson, 2010
  • Volutaxis fallax (H. B. Baker, 1940)
  • Volutaxis linearis (Pfeiffer, 1866)
  • Volutaxis livingstonensis (Pilsbry, 1920)
  • Volutaxis longior (Pilsbry, 1920)
  • Volutaxis maya Bequaert & Clench, 1931
  • Volutaxis nitidus Strebel, 1882
  • Volutaxis rhoadsi (Pilsbry, 1899)
  • Volutaxis scalariopsis (Morelet, 1851)
  • Volutaxis scalella (Von Martens, 1898)
  • Volutaxis strebeli (Pilsbry, 1907)
  • Volutaxis subulinus (H. B. Baker, 1940)
  • Volutaxis sulciferus (Morelet, 1851)
  • Volutaxis tenuecostatus Strebel, 1882
  • Volutaxis tenuis (Pfeiffer, 1868)
  • Volutaxis uruapamensis (Pilsbry, 1899)


subgenus Mirapex Baker, 1939 include one species:
  • Volutaxis enigmaticus (H. B. Baker, 1939)


subgenus Versutaxis Baker, 1939
  • Volutaxis arctatus (H. B. Baker, 1940)
  • Volutaxis futilis (H. B. Baker, 1939)
  • Volutaxis opeas (H. B. Baker, 1939)
  • Volutaxis odiosus (Pilsbry, 1899)
  • Volutaxis patzcuarensis (Pilsbry, 1899)
  • Volutaxis subgranum (H. B. Baker, 1939)
  • Volutaxis subopeas (H. B. Baker, 1939)


Volutaxis (Mirapex ?) acus (Shuttleworth, 1852) is nonen dubium.
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