| Acteon pudicus | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Acteon pudicus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Superfamily: | Acteonoidea |
| Family: | Acteonidae |
| Genus: | Acteon |
| Species: | A. pudicus |
| Binomial name | |
| Acteon pudicus A. Adams, 1855 | |
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| Synonyms [1] | |
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Acteon pudicus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Acteonidae. [1]
The oval shell is subcylindrical, subumbilicate and solid. it is dull whitish, a little flesh tinted. The spire is a little elevated. The whorls are convex, transversely grooved, the grooves equal, punctate. The aperture is oblong. The columella is strongly uniplicate. [2]
This marine species has a wide distribution and occurs off South Africa, the Philippines, Guam and in French Polynesia.
Acteonidae, common name the "barrel bubble snails", is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks of the informal group Lower Heterobranchia.
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Acteon is a genus of small sea snails, predatory marine gastropod mollusks in the family Acteonidae, the barrel bubble snails.
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Rictaxis is a genus of minute sea snails or "bubble snails", marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Acteonidae, the "barrel bubble" snails.
Maxacteon is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Acteonidae, the barrel bubble snails.
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Acteon modestus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Acteonidae.
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Acteon perforatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Acteonidae.
Acteon delicatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Acteonidae.
Acteon juvenis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Acteonidae.
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