Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Order Cephalaspidea > Superfamily Philinoidea > Family Alacuppidae

Roxania Leach, 1847

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Roxania monterosatoi Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896
Roxania pinguicula (G. Seguenza, 1880)
Roxania semilaevis (G. Seguenza, 1880)
Roxania utriculus (Brocchi, 1814)

Literature

original description	Gray, J. E. (1847). The classification of the British Mollusca, by W. E. Leach, M.D. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (1) 20(133): 267-273. [published 1 October 1847].
basis of record	Valdés, Á. (2008). Deep-sea "cephalaspidean" heterobranchs (Gastropoda) from the tropical southwest Pacific. In: Héros, V. et al. (eds) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. 196: 587-792.
additional source	Ilyina L.B. (1993). Определитель морских средне-миоценовых гастропод Юго-Западной Евразии [= Handbook for identification of the marine Middle Miocene gastropods of southwestern Eurasia]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta RAS. 255: 1-151.
status source	Oskars T.R., Too C.C., Rees D., Mikkelsen P.M., Willassen E. & Malaquias M.A.E. (2019). A molecular phylogeny of the gastropod family Haminoeidae sensu lato (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea): a generic revision. Invertebrate Systematics. 33: 426-472.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Roxania Leach, 1847. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137870