Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Acteonimorpha > Superfamily Acteonoidea

Acteonidae A. d'Orbigny, 1842

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Acteon Montfort, 1810
Acteonina A. d'Orbigny, 1850
Callostracon Repetto & Bianco, 2012
Colostracon Hamlin, 1884
Crenilabium Cossmann, 1889
Hemiauricula Deshayes, 1853
Inopinodon Bouchet, 1975
Japonactaeon Is. Taki, 1956
Mysouffa Ev. Marcus, 1974
Pseudactaeon Thiele, 1925
Rapturella Salvador & C. Cunha, 2016
Volvaria Lamarck, 1801

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: spoelhorens sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

English: baby bubbles; barrel shells; barrel snails; small bubble shells sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Drechselschnecken sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: オオシイノミガイ科

Literature

original description	Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1842-1843). Paléontologie française. Description zoologique et géologique de tous les animaux Mollusques et Rayonnés fossiles de France. Terrains crétacés. Tome 2. Paris. 456 pp. [1-224 (1842), 225-456 (1843); dates after H. A. KOLLMANN, 2005, Révision critique de la Paléontologie française d'Alcide d'Orbigny, volume 3, Gastropodes crétacés: 6]. Paris, l'Auteur et Arthus Bertrand. 1-456.
basis of record	Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Acteonidae A. d'Orbigny, 1842. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:155