Maxacteon is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Acteonidae, the barrel bubble snails.Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2015). Maxacteon Rudman, 1971. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=599179 on 2016-05-22
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)
References This article incorporates public domain text from the reference."Family summary for Acteonidae". AnimalBase, last change 25-10-2007, accessed 3 August 2010
The Sea Slug Forum : Maxacteon milleri 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
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