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Fax (gastropod)

genus of Gastropoda

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ18591754 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fax is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Buccinoidea.

Species

Fax grandior (Verco, 1908)

Fax molleri (Iredale, 1931)

Fax tabidus (Hedley, 1904)

Fax tenuicostatus (Tenison Woods, 1877)

Synonyms

Fax alertae Dell, 1956: synonym of Cominella (Eucominia) alertae (Dell, 1956) represented as Cominella alertae (Dell, 1956) (basionym)

Fax mirabilis (Powell, 1929): synonym of Cominella (Eucominia) mirabilis mirabilis Powell, 1929 represented as Cominella mirabilis mirabilis Powell, 1929

Fax powelli C. A. Fleming, 1948: synonym of Cominella (Eucominia) mirabilis powelli (C. A. Fleming, 1948) represented as Cominella mirabilis powelli (C. A. Fleming, 1948) (basionym)

References

Fraussen, K. (2010). Buccinidae checklist. Pers. Com.

Editorial summary

“Fax (gastropod)” enters the record as genus of Gastropoda. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what gastropod, genus and Gastropoda can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1908, 1931, 1904, 1877—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around gastropod, genus and Gastropoda.
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“Fax (gastropod)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, gastropod, genus and Gastropoda provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18591754. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1908, 1931, 1904 and 1877.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fax (gastropod)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.