Acteon candens
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Acteonoidea |
| Family: | Acteonidae |
| Genus: | Acteon |
| Species: | A. candens
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| Binomial name | |
| Acteon candens Rehder, 1939
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Acteon candens, common name Rehder's baby bubble, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Acteonidae.[1] This species is similar to Acteon punctostriatus.
Description
The length of the shell varies between 5 mm and 10 mm. Despite looking similar to Acteon punctostriatus, this snail is slightly larger, more solid, more glossy white, less conspictuous with the basal striation well marked but is posteriorly becoming more obscure generally not reaching the upper insertion of the lip. A few pale caramel colored bands may appear on the early whorl of the shell.[2] It is opaque milk-white and has light orange suffusions on the body whorl. It doesn't have sprial grooves from the other ½ of the body whorl. Compared to Rictaxis punctostriatus, A. candens is more thicker-shelled than R. punctostriatus.[3]
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Western Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina; in the Caribbean Sea off Cuba.
References
- ^ a b WoRMS. "Acteon candens Rehder, 1939". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
- ^ "The Nautilus". American Malacologists, inc., etc. 5 October 1939.
- ^ "Acteon candens". letstalkseashells.
- Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
External links
- Rehder, H. A. (1939). New marine mollusks from the west Atlantic. The Nautilus. 53(1): 16-21, pl. 6
- Conchology.be: image