Maxacteon
| Maxacteon | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia informal group Lower Heterobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Acteonoidea |
| Family: | Acteonidae |
| Genus: | Maxacteon Rudman, 1971 |
Maxacteon is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Acteonidae, the barrel bubble snails.
Species
Species within the genus Maxacteon include:
- Maxacteon cratericulatus Hedley, 1906
- Distribution : New Zealand
- Maxacteon fabreanus (= Acteon fabreanus) Crosse, 1874
- Distribution : Philippines
- Length : 17–30 mm
- Description : white shell with five whorls, each whorl filled with lightbrown bands covering the many spirals of each whorl.
- Maxacteon flammea (= Acteon flammeus) Gmelin, 1791
- Distribution : Red Sea, tropical Indo-West Pacific
- Length : 17 mm
- Description : the headshield is developing secondary tentacles.
- 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 milleri (= Acteon milleri) Rudman, 1971
- Distribution : New Zealand
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[1]
- ↑ "Family summary for Acteonidae". AnimalBase, last change 25-10-2007, accessed 3 August 2010
External links
Data related to Maxacteon at Wikispecies
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