Biology:Japonactaeon
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Short description: Genus of gastropods
Japonactaeon | |
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Japonactaeon suturalis (Adams, 1855) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Subterclass: | Acteonimorpha |
Superfamily: | Acteonoidea |
Family: | Acteonidae |
Genus: | Japonactaeon Taki, 1956 |
Type species | |
Acteon nipponensis Yamakawa, 1911 | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Japonacteon [sic] (misspelling) |
Japonactaeon is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Acteonidae, the barrel bubble snails.[1]
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)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bouchet, P. (2012). Japonactaeon. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415521 on 2012-06-04
- Taki I. (1956). Japonactaeon, a new genus of Pupidae (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda). Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, N. S. 3(1): 47-51
Wikidata ☰ Q17027348 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japonactaeon.
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