Maxacteon

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 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)

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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