Admete tabulata

Admete tabulata
Drawing of a shell of Admete tabulata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Cancellariidae
Genus:	Admete
Species:	A. tabulata
Binomial name
Admete tabulata G.B. Sowerby III, 1875

Admete tabulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]

Description

The shell grows to a length of 22 mm.

The whorls exhibit a narrow tabulate structure, characterized by granular texture resulting from intersecting ribs. The shell, predominantly white, is covered by a brownish epidermis. The columella displays minute plications. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in Arctic waters.

References

1. Admete tabulata Sowerby, 1875. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 November 2012.
2. G.W. Tryon - Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species vol. VII; Philadelphia, Published by the Author, Academy of Natural Sciences 1879-1898 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

• Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.

External links

• Sowerby, G. B. III. (1875). Descriptions of ten new species of shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 43: 125-129, pl. 24.
• Hemmen J. (2007) Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and errata for, Recent Cancellariidae by Jens Hemmen, 2007. Conchologia Ingrata 9: 1–8