Maxacteon
Genus of gastropods
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Maxacteon is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Acteonidae, the barrel bubble snails.[1]
| Maxacteon | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Family: | Acteonidae |
| Genus: | Maxacteon Rudman, 1971 |
| Type species | |
| Maxacteon hancocki Rudman, 1971 | |
| Synonyms | |
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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)
