Japonactaeon

Updated on Nov 16, 2023

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Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Acteonidae		Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Acteonoidea Rank Genus
Similar Acteonidae, Acteon, Auriculastra duplicata, Anadara kagoshimensis, Acteonoidea

Japonactaeon is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Acteonidae, the barrel bubble snails.

Species

Species within the genus Japonactaeon include:

Japonactaeon longissimus Valdés, 2008

Japonactaeon nipponensis (Yamakawa, 1911) (synonym: Acteon nipponensis Yamakawa, 1911)

Distribution : Japan, Korea

Length : 10 mm

Japonactaeon punctostriatus (C. B. Adams, 1840)

Japonactaeon pusillus (MacGillivray, 1843)

Distribution : Florida, Japan, Mediterranean

Length : 11 mm

Description : found at depths of 200 to 820 m

Japonactaeon sieboldii (Reeve, 1842)

Distribution : Japan, Coral Sea, Philippines

Length : 10 mm

Description: found on sandy bottoms; whitish shell; first whorl with lighbrown color bordered with darker brown bands.

Species brought into synonymy

Japonactaeon suturalis (A. Adams, 1855); synonym of Pupa suturalis (A. Adams, 1855)

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