Axelia

Axelia; Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sarcopterygii
Subclass:	Actinistia
Order:	Coelacanthiformes
Family:	†Coelacanthidae
Genus:	†Axelia; Stensiö, 1921
Type species
	†Axelia robusta; Stensiö, 1921
Other species
	†Axelia elegans Stensiö, 1921;

Axelia is an extinct genus of prehistoric lobe-finned fish, which belonged to the family of Coelacanthidae. It lived during the Smithian (early Olenekian) age of the Early Triassic epoch in what is now Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Fossils were found in the "Fish Niveau" of the Lusitaniadalen Member of the Vikinghøgda Formation.

Erik Stensiö named the genus after his brother Axel Andersson.

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