Japonactaeon

Japonactaeon is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Acteonidae, the barrel bubble snails.[1]

Japonactaeon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia informal group Lower Heterobranchia
Superfamily:	Acteonoidea
Family:	Acteonidae
Genus:	Japonactaeon Taki, 1956
Type species
Acteon nipponensis Yamakawa, 1911
Synonyms
Japonacteon [sic] (misspelling)

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. 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