Japonactaeon pusillus

Japonactaeon pusillus
Shell of Japonactaeon pusillus (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Superfamily:	Acteonoidea
Family:	Acteonidae
Genus:	Japonactaeon
Species:	J. pusillus
Binomial name
Japonactaeon pusillus (Forbes, 1844)
Synonyms
Japonacteon pusillus [sic] (genus misspelling) Tornatella pusilla Forbes, 1844

Japonactaeon pusillus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Acteonidae.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 2 mm and 6 mm.

The ovate-globose shell is whitish. It contains four whorls. These are regularly and deeply punctate-striate. The aperture is oblong.

Distribution

This marine species has a wide distribution and occurs off Florida Keys, USA; West Indies; Madeira; Mediterranean Sea and Japan (found at depths of 200 to 820 m)

External links

• Forbes E. (1844). Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean sea, and on their distribution, considered as bearing on geology. Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for 1843. 130-193
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213
• MacGillivray, W. (1843). A history of the molluscous animals of the counties of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff, to which is appended an account of the cirripedal animals of the same district. Cunningham & Mortimer, London. xxiv + 372 pp
• Bouchet, P. (1975). Opisthobranches de profondeur de l'Ocean Atlantique. I Cephalaspidea. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 16(3): 317-365