Acteon (gastropod)
Acteon is a genus of small sea snails, predatory marine gastropod mollusks in the family Acteonidae, the barrel bubble snails.
The genus is named after Acteon, a character in Greek mythology.
In the genus Acteon, the individual teeth of the radula are very small. There are many teeth in each row.
Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with accepted names are included in the genus Acteon[1]
- Acteon albus Sowerby
- Acteon antarcticus Thiele, 1912
- Acteon aphyodes Valdès, 2008
- Acteon boteroi Valdès, 2008
- Acteon buccinus Valdès, 2008
- Acteon candens Rehder, 1939
- Acteon chauliodous Valdès, 2008
- Acteon chrystomatus Valdès, 2008
- Acteon cohibilis Valdès, 2008
- Acteon comptus Valdès, 2008
- Acteon danaida Dall, 1881
- Acteon delicatus Dall, 1889
- Acteon editus Valdès, 2008
- Acteon flammea (Gmelin, 1791)
- Acteon fructuosus Iredale, 1936
- Acteon herosae Valdès, 2008
- Acteon incisus Dall, 1881
- Acteon ionfasciatus Valdès, 2008
- Acteon loyautensis Valdès, 2008
- Acteon maltzani Dautzenberg, 1910
- Acteon melampoides Dall, 1881
- Acteon monterosatoi Dautzenberg, 1889
- Acteon osexiguus Valdès, 2008
- Acteon perforatus Dall, 1881
- Acteon profundus Valdès, 2008
- Acteon retusus Verco, 1907
- Acteon rhektos Valdès, 2008
- Acteon ringiculoides Valdès, 2008
- Acteon subroseus Iredale, 1936
- Acteon virgatus Reeve, 1842
The Indo-Pacific molluscan Database also includes the following species:
- Acteon aethiopicus Martens, 1902
- Acteon archibenthicola Habe, 1955
- Acteon austrinus Watson, 1883
- Acteon dolichoroseus Iredale, 1936
- Acteon edentulus Watson, 1883
- Acteon eloiseae Abbott, 1973
- Acteon fabreanus Crosse, 1873
- Acteon fortis Thiele, 1925
- Acteon kirai Habe, 1949
- Acteon mariae
- Acteon lactuca
- Acteon minutus
- Acteon nakayamai Habe, 1952-a
- Acteon nipponensis Yamakawa, 1911
- Acteon oryza
- Acteon pudicus (A. Adams), 1854
- Acteon pulchrior Melvill, 1904
- Acteon roseus Hedley, 1906
- Acteon siebaldii (Reeve 1842-c)
- Acteon soyoae Habe, 1961-a
- Acteon subincisus Okutani, 1968
- Acteon teramachii Habe, 1950
- Acteon variegatus (Bruguiere, 1789)
The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) also includes the following species:[2]
- Acteon cumningi A. Adams, 1854
- Acteon finlayi Stearns, 1898
- Acteon hebes
- Acteon juvenis Dall, 1927
- Acteon lacunatus Dall, 1927
- Acteon liostracoides Dall, 1927
- Acteon parallelus Dall, 1927
- Acteon particolor Dall, 1927
- Acteon propius Dall, 1927
- Acteon pusillus (Forbes, 1844)
- Acteon semicingulata Dall, 1927
- Acteon tornatilis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Acteon traskii Stearns, 1898
- Acteon aethiopicus Martens, E.C. von, 1902
- Acteon antarcticus Thiele, 1912
- Distribution : subantarctic
- Length : 6.6 mm
- Description : found at depths of 120 to 340 m
- Acteon archibenthicola Habe, 1955
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific
- Acteon austrinus Watson, 1883
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific
- Acteon biplicatus Strebel, 1908
- Distribution : subantarctic, Argentina, Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego
- Length : 4.4 mm
- Description : found at depths of 16 to 150 m
- Acteon candens Rehder, 1939 Rehder’s baby bubble
- Distribution : Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, North Carolina, Florida, Western Atlantic Ocean.
- Length ; 10 mm
- Description : found at depths of 10 to 20 m; glossy white shell with five whorls; body whorl contains at the base three brown spiraling bands; the top of each whorl has a narrow brown band.
- Acteon castus Hinds, 1844
- Distribution : West America
- Acteon cratericulatus Hedley, 1906
- Distribution : New Zealand
- Acteon danaida Dall, 1881
- Distribution : Georgia, Caribbean, NE Brazil
- Length : 11 mm
- Description :.found at depths of 370 to 620 m; white translucent shell with five whorls.
- Acteon delicatus Dall, 1889
- Distribution :Florida, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico.
- Length : 10 mm
- Description : found at depths of 135 to 565 m
- Acteon dolichoroseus Iredale, 1936
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific
- Acteon edentulus Watson, 1883
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific
- Acteon eloiseae (= Punctacteon eloisae or perhaps a Maxacteon ?) Abbott, 1973 Eloise’s acteon
- Distribution : Red Sea, Oman.
- Length : 25–38 mm
- Description: sublittoral on sandy bottoms; cream-colored shell with 5 convex whorls, each whorl with many spiral windings; each whorl is filled with redbrown separate patterns with darkbrown to black borders; similar to Maxacteon flammea.
- Acteon elongatus Castellanos, Rolán & Bartolotta, 1987
- Distribution : Argentina
- Length : 8.5 mm
- Description : found at depths of 150 to 600 m
- Acteon exiguus Mörch, 1875
- Distribution : Venezuela, Surinam.
- Length : 6.5 mm
- Description : found at depths of 14 to 18 m
- Acteon fabreanus (= Maxacteon fabreanus) Crosse, 1874
- Distribution : Philippines
- Length : 17–30 mm
- Description : white shell with five whorls, each whorl filled with lightbrown bands covering the many spirals of each whorl.
- Acteon finlayi McGinty, 1955
- Distribution : Florida, Caribbean
- Length : 12 mm
- Description : found at depths up to 360 m
- Acteon flammeus (= Maxacteon flammea) Gmelin, 1791
- Distribution : Red Sea, tropical Indo-West Pacific
- Length : 17 mm
- Description : the headshield is developing secondary tentacles.
- Acteon fortis Thiele, 1925
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific
- Acteon hancocki (= Maxacteon hancocki) Rudman, 1971
- Distribution : New Zealand
- Acteon hebes A. E. Verrill, 1885
- Distribution : Georgia, North Carolina.
- Length : 8 mm
- Description : deepsea species; found at depths of 800 to 4700 m
- Acteon incisus Dall, 1881
- Distribution : Georgia, Mexico, Cuba
- Length : 10 mm
- Description : found at depths of 30 to 1170 m
- Acteon juvenis Dall, 1927
- Distribution : Georgia
- Length : 3 mm
- Description : found at depths of over 500 m
- Acteon kirai Habe, 1949
- Distribution : Philippines
- Length : 20 mm
- Description : shell whitish to brownish; five whorls, first whorl being the largest; each whorl has many spiral windings; outer lip is notched.
- Acteon lactuca (author unknown)
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific.
- Acteon lacunatus Dall, 1927
- Distribution : Georgia
- Length : 3 mm
- Description : found at depths of 800 m
- Acteon mariae (author unknown)
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific
- Acteon melampoides Dall, 1881
- Distribution : Virginia, Florida, Caribbean
- Length : 9.6 mm
- Description : deepsea species; found at depths of 400 to 4700 m
- Acteon milleri (= Maxacteon milleri) Rudman, 1971
- Distribution : New Zealand
- Acteon minutus (author unknown)
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific
- Acteon monterosatoi Dautzenberg, 1889
- Distribution : Europe, Mediterranean, Azores
- Acteon mysouffa cumingii Adams, 1854
- Distribution : Brazil, Florida
- Length : 10–20 mm
- Description : found at depths of 10 to 360 m; lightbrown shell with a large first whorl; each whorl with many spiral windings.; outer lip notched.
- Acteon nakayamai Habe, 1952
- Acteon nipponensis Yamakawa, 1911
- Distribution : Japan, Korea
- Length : 10 mm
- Acteon oryza (author unknown)
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific
- Acteon ovulum (Pfeiffer, 1840)
- Distribution : Cuba
- Length : 3.6 mm
- Description :
- Acteon panamensis Dall, 1908
- Acteon parallelus Dall, 1927
- Distribution : Georgia
- Length : 3 mm
- Description : found at depths of 530 to 800 m
- Acteon particolor Dall, 1927
- Distribution : Georgia
- Length : 3.5 mm
- Description : found at depths of 800 m
- Acteon pelecais Marcus, 1972
- Distribution : Brazil
- Length : 9.5 mm
- Description : found at depths to 85 m
- Acteon perforatus Dall, 1881
- Distribution : Mexico, Cuba
- Length : 14 mm
- Description : found at depths of 330 to 1450 m
- Acteon proprius Dall, 1927
- Distribution : America, Georgia.
- Length : 4.3 mm
- Acteon pudicus Adams, 1854
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific
- Acteon pulchrior Melvill, 1904
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific
- Acteon punctocaelatus (= Rictaxis punctocaelatus) Carpenter, 1864 Barrel shell; Carpenter's baby bubble
- Acteon punctostriatus (= Rictaxis punctostriatus) Adams, 1840 Adam’s baby bubble
- Acteon retusus Verco, 1907
- Acteon roseus Hedley, 1906
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific
- Acteon semicingulatus Dall, 1927
- Distribution : Georgia
- Length : 3 mm
- Description : found at depths of 500 m
- Acteon semisculptus E. A. Smith, 1890
- Distribution : Eastern Atlantic, St. Helena
- Length : 4 mm
- Acteon senegalensis Petit de la Saussaye
- Distribution : West Africa
- Acteon siebaldii 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.
- Acteon soyoae Habe, 1961
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific
- Acteon splendidulus Mörch, 1875
- Distribution : Caribbean
- Length : 4.8 mm
- Acteon subincisus Okutani, 1968
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific
- Acteon subroseus Iredale, 1936
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific
- Acteon teramachii Habe, 1950
- Distribution : Indo-Pacific
- Acteon tornatilis Linnaeus, 1767 Lathe acteon
- Distribution : Iceland, Norway, British coasts, Norway to Congo, Mediterranean, Marmara Sea.
- Length : 10–25 mm
- Description : This is the major representative of the Acteonidae in European waters; It lives buried in the sand, in the intertidal zone and to a depth of up to 250 m; thick boldly colored shell with large body whorl; There are 6-7 whorls, filled with alternating wider lightbrown spiral bands and smaller pinkgray strips; white outer lip; the shell is elongate and ovate with a sharp apex. Aperture is narrow at the posterior notch but wider at the base. Columella slightly thickened and twisted.
- Acteon traskii Stearns, 1897
- Distribution : California, Panama
- Length : 18 mm
- Acteon vagabundus Mabille & de Rochebrune, 1885
- Distribution : East America
- Acteon variegatus (= Punctacteon variegatus) Bruguière, 1789 Pink-spotted acteon
- Distribution : Philippines, West Australia.
- Length : 9–27 mm
- Description : sublittoral on sandy bottoms; convex, cream-colored shell with five whorls, each whorls is covered with transverse pink-colored to lightbrown patterns, without dark borders; whirls with prominent shoulder.
- Acteon venustus d'Orbigny, 1840
- Distribution : West America
- Acteon virgatus (= Punctacteon virgatus) Reeve, 1842 Striped acteon
- Distribution : SW Pacific
- Length : 25 mm
- Description : cream-colored convex shell with five whorls with many spiral grooves; transversely decorated with wavy darkbrown bands,.
References
External links
- Worms info on the genus: [1]