Gonaxis

Gonaxis
Shell of Gonaxis lamottei (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Streptaxoidea
Family:	Streptaxidae
Genus:	Gonaxis Taylor, 1877 [1]
Type species
Gonaxis gibbonsiTaylor, 1877
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Edentulina (Marconia)Bourguignat, 1890 (superseded combination) Gonaxis (Gonaxis)J. W. Taylor, 1877· accepted, alternate representation Gonaxis (Marconia)Bourguignat, 1890 (junior synonym) Gonaxis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 MarconiaBourguignat, 1890 (junior synonym) Marconia (Stenomarconia)Germain, 1934 (original combination) StenomarconiaGermain, 1934

Gonaxis is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae. ^{[3] [2]}

Distribution

Distribution of the genus Gonaxis include Equatorial Africa and South Africa:

• South Africa ^[3]
• Tanzania ^[4]
• Uganda (2 species) ^[5]
• ...

Species

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, 1961 ^[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)

References

1. Taylor (1877). Quart. J. Conch.1: 252.
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Gonaxis J. W. Taylor, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996787 on 2021-01-01
3. Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. doi : 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
4. Tattersfield P. (1996). Gonaxis vosseleri. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
5. Wronski T. & Hausdorf B. (2010). "Diversity and body-size patterns of land snails in rain forests in Uganda". Journal of Molluscan Studies 76(1): 87-100. doi : 10.1093/mollus/eyp048.
6. gbif: Gonaxis montisnimbae
7. Tattersfield P. (1996). Gonaxis usambarensis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
8. Gerlach J. & Bruggen A. C. van (1999). "Streptaxidae Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) of the Seychelles Islands, western Indian Ocean". Zoologische Verhandelingen 328: 1-60. abstract, PDF.

• 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

External links

• Media related to Gonaxis at Wikimedia Commons