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Acteon

Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae

Taxonomy

Acteon was named by Montfort (1810). It is extant.

It was assigned to Acteonininae by Sohl (1964); to Acteoninae by Kase (1984); to Cephalaspida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Acteonidae by Woodring (1928), Turner (1938), Durham (1944), Harris and Palmer (1947), Gardner (1948), Olsson and Harbison (1953), MacNeil (1960), Addicott (1970), Moore (1976), Gazdzicki and Pugaczewska (1984), Beu et al. (1990), Chiesa et al. (1995), Todd (2001), Kiel (2006) and Wienrich and Janssen (2007).

Species

Actaeon andersoni, Actaeon argentinus, Actaeon blanckenhorni, Actaeon calvertensis, Actaeon globosus, Actaeon inornatus, Actaeon kirkerensis, Actaeon latus, Actaeon lawsoni, Actaeon lenzi, Actaeon merriami, Actaeon pusilla, Actaeon pusillus, Actaeon reussi, Actaeon shilohensis (syn. Actaeon punctostriatus), A. (Acteon), A. annectens, A. arnumensis, A. bajoensis, A. boulderanus, A. chattonensis, A. chehalisensis, A. chipolanus, A. cicatricosus, A. costaricensis, A. eurystoma, A. ghossi, A. hamadryados, A. idoneus, A. korphys, A. korphys, A. luculi, A. ovoides, A. parvum, A. pistilliformis, A. politus, A. rakhiensis, A. semilaevis, A. simiensis, A. subulatus, A. sullivanae, A. susanaensis, A. teramachii, A. textilis, A. tornatilis, A. traskii, A. umpquaensis, A. vacavillensis, A. venturaensis, A. virgatus, Tornatella (Actaeon) pomilia

Species lacking formal opinion data

A. bathurstensis, A. claibornicola, A. conicus, A. costellatus, A. curtus, A. danicus, A. ellipticus, A. eoantarcticus, A. menthafons, A. meyeri, A. petricolus, A. pomilis, A. procraterioulatus, A. punctatus, A. quercus, A. semispiralis, A. subaldrichi, A. substriatus, A. tampae, A. tornantilis, A. vacavilleneis, A. wangaloa

Synonyms

Actaeon was named by Oken (1815) [Sepkoski's age data: K Turo R Sepkoski's reference number: 123]. It is extant.

It was reranked as Tornatella (Actaeon) by Heilprin (1879); it was replaced with Acteon by Wagner (2023).

It was assigned to Tornatella by Heilprin (1879); to Actaeonidae by White (1889); to Acteonidae by Martin (1904); and to Cephalaspida by Sepkoski (2002).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1810	Acteon Montfort
1815	Actaeon Oken
1879	Tornatella (Actaeon) Heilprin p. 222
1889	Actaeon White p. 445
1904	Actaeon Martin p. 131
1928	Acteon Woodring p. 117
1938	Acteon Turner p. 67
1944	Acteon Durham p. 190
1947	Acteon Harris and Palmer p. 453
1948	Acteon Gardner p. 277
1953	Acteon Olsson and Harbison p. 157
1960	Acteon MacNeil p. 126
1964	Acteon Sohl p. 287
1970	Acteon Addicott p. 137
1976	Acteon Moore p. 40
1984	Acteon Gazdzicki and Pugaczewska p. 113
1984	Acteon Kase p. 167
1990	Acteon Beu et al. p. 421
1995	Acteon Chiesa et al. p. 61
2001	Acteon Todd
2002	Actaeon Sepkoski
2002	Acteon Sepkoski
2006	Acteon Kiel p. 128
2007	Acteon Wienrich and Janssen p. 767

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa

Rank	Name	Author
phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda
order	Heterostropha	()
superfamily	Acteonoidea	d'Orbigny 1835
family	Acteonidae	d'Orbigny 1835
genus	Acteon	Montfort 1810

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Acteon Montfort 1810

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Subg. Acteon (Acteon) Montfort 1810

†Acteon (Acteon) microspiralis Oleinik 1991

†Acteon annectens Meyer 1885

†Acteon arnumensis Sorgenfrei 1958

†Acteon bajoensis Chiesa et al. 1995

†Acteon boulderanus Etherington 1931

†Acteon chattonensis Marwick 1929

†Acteon chehalisensis Weaver 1916

†Acteon chipolanus Dall 1896

†Acteon cicatricosus Sohl 1964