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 <small>Hedley, 1906</small>
- Distribution : New Zealand
- Maxacteon flammeus (= Acteon flammeus) <small>Gmelin, 1791</small>
- Maxacteon hancocki (= Acteon hancocki) <small>Rudman, 1971</small>
- 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 <small>(Habe, 1952)</small>
- Maxacteon milleri (= Acteon milleri) <small>Rudman, 1971</small>
- Distribution : New Zealand
- Maxacteon sagamiensis <small>(Kuroda & Habe, 1971)</small>
Species brought into synonymy:
- Maxacteon fabreanus (= Acteon fabreanus) <small>Crosse, 1874</small>: synonym of Punctacteon fabreanus <small>(Crosse, 1874)</small>
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.
- 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 ÃÂ. (2008). Deep-sea "cephalaspidean" heterobranchs (Gastropoda) from the tropical southwest Pacific. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 196:587-792
External links