Kingdom Animalia Family Acteonidae Scientific name Rictaxis punctostriatus Higher classification Rictaxis | Superfamily Acteonoidea Genus Japonactaeon Phylum Mollusca Rank Species | |
Similar Acteon, Prunum apicinum, Terebra dislocata, Acteocina | ||
Japonactaeon punctostriatus, common names Adam’s baby bubble and pitted baby-bubble, is a species of minute sea snail or "bubble snail", a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Acteonidae, the "barrel bubble" snails.
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Distribution
This species occurs in the Western Atlantic Ocean: Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Venezuela.
Shell description
This barrel bubble snail has an ovate white shell with shouldered whorls. The body whorl has 10 -14 slightly irregular spiral grooves. The columella is twisted. The aperture is ovate and is rounded above and below.
The shell length is 3 – 7.5 mm.
Habitat
This snail is found in mud or sand from low tide to depths of up to 100 m.
Life cycle
The eggs are laid in a spiral string, enclosed in a mucus tube.
References
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