Maxacteon

Maxacteon is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Acteonidae, the barrel bubble snails.[1]

Maxacteon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
informal group Lower Heterobranchia
Superfamily:
Acteonoidea
Family:
Acteonidae
Genus:
Maxacteon

Rudman, 1971
Type species
Maxacteon hancocki Rudman, 1971
Synonyms

Acteon (Maxacteon) Rudman, 1971

Species

Species within the genus Maxacteon include:

  • Maxacteon cratericulatus Hedley, 1906
    • Distribution : New Zealand
  • Maxacteon flammeus (= Acteon flammeus) Gmelin, 1791
  • Maxacteon hancocki (= Acteon hancocki) Rudman, 1971
    • Distribution : New Zealand
    • Length : 6 mm
    • Description : headshield with a pair of fleshy lobes; thin operculum; white shell with orange-brown markings at the base and at the apex; large body whorl; large columella, slightly twisted; shell sculptured with grooves
  • Maxacteon kawamurai (Habe, 1952)
  • Maxacteon milleri (= Acteon milleri) Rudman, 1971
    • Distribution : New Zealand
  • Maxacteon sagamiensis (Kuroda & Habe, 1971)
Species brought into synonymy
  • Maxacteon fabreanus (= Acteon fabreanus) Crosse, 1874: synonym of Punctacteon fabreanus (Crosse, 1874)
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References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[2]

  1. Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2015). Maxacteon Rudman, 1971. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=599179 on 2016-05-22
  2. "Family summary for Acteonidae". AnimalBase, last change 25-10-2007, accessed 3 August 2010
  • The Sea Slug Forum : Maxacteon milleri
  • Rudman, W.B. 1971. The family Acteonidae (Opisthobranchia: Gastropoda) in New Zealand. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2: 205-214
  • Valdés Á. (2008). Deep-sea "cephalaspidean" heterobranchs (Gastropoda) from the tropical southwest Pacific. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 196:587-792


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