Maxacteon
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Maxacteon is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Acteonidae, the barrel bubble snails.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
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)
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/family?id=874 "Family summary for Acteonidae"]. AnimalBase, last change 25-10-2007, accessed 3 August 2010
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- [http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/maxamill 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
External links
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