''Rectaxis'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

predatory Predation is a biological interaction in which one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill ...

air-breathing

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...

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pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

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s in the family

Spiraxidae Spiraxidae is a family (biology), family of predatory air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the superfamily Testacelloidea (according to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), taxon ...

Distribution

The distribution of the genus ''Rectaxis'' is an area that reaches from

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.Thompson F. G. (16 June 2008)
"AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE LAND AND FRESHWATER SNAILS OF MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA"
accessed 14 January 2011.

Species

Species in the genus ''Rectaxis'' include: * '' Rectaxis alvaradoi'' (Goodrich & van der Schalie, 1937) * '' Rectaxis canalizonalis'' (Pilsbry, 1930) * '' Rectaxis confertestriatus'' (Strebel, 1882) * '' Rectaxis decussatus'' Baker, 1926 - type species * '' Rectaxis funibus'' (Goodrich & van der Schalie, 1937) * '' Rectaxis granum'' (H. B. Baker, 1939) * '' Rectaxis intermedius'' (Strebel, 1882) * '' Rectaxis pagodus'' Thompson, 2010
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. * '' Rectaxis paulisculpta'' (Rehder, 1942) * '' Rectaxis pittieri'' (Von Martens, 1898) * '' Rectaxis rhabdus'' (Pilsbry, 1907) * '' Rectaxis subnitidus'' (H. B. Baker, 1939) * '' Rectaxis subtilis'' (H. B. Baker, 1939)

References

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