Japonactaeon pusillus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Acteonidae.
Description
The length of the shell varies between 2 mm and 6 mm.
The ovate-globose shell is whitish. It contains four whorls. These are regularly and deeply punctate-striate. The aperture is oblong.
Distribution
This marine species has a wide distribution and occurs off Florida Keys, USA; West Indies; Madeira; Mediterranean Sea and Japan (found at depths of 200 to 820 m)
References
External links
- Forbes E. (1844). Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean sea, and on their distribution, considered as bearing on geology. Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for 1843. 130-193
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213
- MacGillivray, W. (1843). A history of the molluscous animals of the counties of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff, to which is appended an account of the cirripedal animals of the same district. Cunningham & Mortimer, London. xxiv + 372 pp
- Bouchet, P. (1975). Opisthobranches de profondeur de l'Ocean Atlantique. I Cephalaspidea. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 16(3): 317-365