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

Japonactaeon pusillus (Forbes, 1844)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Japonactaeon*	Is. Taki, 1956	accepted genus name
*Japonacteon*	[sic]	orthographic variant

Species group names

*Japonacteon pusillus*	[sic]	orthographic variant
*Tornatella pusilla*	Forbes, 1844	synonym

Literature

basis of record	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.
additional source	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.
new combination reference	Bouchet, P. (1975). Opisthobranches de profondeur de l'Ocean Atlantique. I Cephalaspidea. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 16(3): 317-365.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Japonactaeon pusillus (Forbes, 1844). 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:138696