Taxonavigation

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

Name

Maxacteon Rudman, 1971

• Authority for current placement: original
• Current status: valid genus, or valid subgenus of Acteon according to Powell, 1979: 268 ('Unfortunately Rudman compared his genus with Pupa but not Acteon, the European type of which strongly resembles Maxacteon. Until more is known on the anatomy of tornatilis, particularly its radula, the writer compromises by accepting Maxacteon tentatively, but only at the subgeneric level'). Actually, Rudman (1971: 212) did compare Maxacteon anatomically with Acteon tornatilis, stating that 'the anatomy of Acteon tornatilis (Linné, 1766), the type species of Acteon Montfort, 1810, has been fully studied ... and it is possible to define this genus adequately. The shell is similar to Maxacteon ..., but the two genera differ considerably in anatomical features ... Maxacteon n.gen. is easily recognisable from other valid genera ... It differs from Acteon s.str. in the shape of the headshield, in the form of the radula and in the structure of the reproductive system.'
• Gender: [masculine]
• Original status: valid genus
• Type species: Maxacteon hancocki Rudman, 1971
• Fixation: original designation [see p. 207]
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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