Maxacteon

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Acteonoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Mollusca Classis: Gastropoda Subclassis: Heterobranchia Infraclassis: Euthyneura Cohors: Acteonimorpha Superfamilia: Acteonoidea

Familia: Acteonidae
Genus: Maxacteon
Species (4): M. cratericulatus – M. flammeus – M. hancocki – M. kawamurai – M. milleri – M. sagamiensis

Name

Maxacteon Rudman, 1971

• Current status: valid genus, or valid subgenus
• Type species: Maxacteon hancocki Rudman, 1971
• Fixation: original designation [see p. 207]

Synonyms

• Acteon (Maxacteon) Rudman, 1971

References

• Rudman, W.B. 1971. The family Acteonidae (Opisthobranchia, Gastropoda) in New Zealand. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2(2): 205–214, plate 19. Reference page.  [first availability, see p. 207]
• Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca. Williams Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland. ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• Rudman, W.B. 1972. A study of the anatomy of Pupa and Maxacteon (Acteonidae, Opisthobranchia), with an account of the breeding cycle of Pupa kirki. Journal of Natural History 6(6): 603–619. DOI: 10.1080/00222937200770541 . Reference page. 
• Acteonidae in New Zealand - species of the genera Pupa and Acteon

Links

• Maxacteon in the World Register of Marine Species