Neactaeonina
Encyclopedia
Neactaeonina is a genus
of small sea snail
s, predatory marine
gastropod molluscs in the family
Acteonidae
, the barrel bubble snails.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of small sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, predatory marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod molluscs in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Acteonidae
Acteonidae
Acteonidae, common name the "barrel bubble snails", is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks of the informal group Lower Heterobranchia.-Shell description:The shell is usually smaller than 25 mm...
, the barrel bubble snails.
Species
Species within the genus Neacteonina include:- Neactaeonina cingulata Strebel, 1908 - Distribution: subantarctic. Length: 10.5 mm. Description: found at depths of 50 to 350 m.
- Neactaeonina edentula Watson, 1883 - Distribution: subantarctic, Indian Ocean, Kerguelen Islands. Length: 49.6 mm. Description: found at depths of 170 to 800 m.
- Neactaeonina inexpectataNeactaeonina inexpectataNeactaeonina inexpectata is a species of small sea snail, a predatory marine gastropod mollusc in the family Acteonidae, the barrel bubble snails.-References:* Powell A W B, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
Dell, 1956 - Neactaeonina umbilicalis
Further reading
- Powell A W BArthur William Baden PowellDr Arthur William Baden Powell CBE was a New Zealand malacologist, naturalist and palaeontologist, a major influence in the study and classification of New Zealand molluscs through much of the twentieth century. He was known to his friends and family by his third name, "Baden".Powell was born at...
, William Collins Publishers LtdHarperCollinsHarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1