Axelella smithii

Axelella smithii
Shell of Axelella smithii (syntype at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Cancellariidae
Genus:	Axelella
Species:	A. smithii
Binomial name
Axelella smithii (Dall, 1888)
Synonyms
Cancellaria smithii Dall, 1888 Olssonella smithii (Dall, 1888) superseded combination

Axelella smithii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.

Distribution

This deep-water species occurs from the continental shelf off North Carolina, south past South Carolina and Georgia, and down the eastern coast of Florida.

References

• Abbott, R. T. (1974). American Seashells: The Marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North America. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York.
• Petit, R. E. (1988). Axelella, new name for Olssonella Petit, 1970, a preoccupied taxon (Mollusca: Cancellariacea). The Nautilus, 102(3): 130.
• Harasewych, M. G., & Petit, R. E. (1984). Notes on the morphology of Olssonella smithii (Gastropoda: Cancellariidae). The Nautilus, 98(1): 37–44.
• Turgeon, D. D., Quinn, J. F., Jr., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., et al. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks (2nd ed.). American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
• Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
• Hemmen, J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp.
• Landau, B., Petit, R. E., Etter, W. & da Silva, C. M. (2012). New species and records of Cancellariinae (Caenogastropoda) from tropical America, together with a catalogue of Neogene to Recent species from this region. Cainozoic Research. 9(2): 193-279.

External links

• Dall, W.H. (1888). Gasteropods and lamellibranchs. In: Agassiz A. (ed.) Three cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer "Blake" in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and along the Atlantic coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880. Vol. 2. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. p. 70. Retrieved 21 May 2026.