Admete choshiensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
Admete choshiensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Cancellariidae |
Subfamily: | Admetinae |
Genus: | Admete |
Species: | A. choshiensis
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Binomial name | |
Admete choshiensis Shikama, 1962
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Description
editThe shell grows to a length of 25 mm.
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Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Japan.
References
edit- ^ Admete choshiensis Shikama, 1962. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 April 20103 November 2012.
- Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 39: 225–383.
External links
edit- Shikama T. (1962). On some noteworthy shells from off Chôshi, Chiba Prefecture. Science Reports of the Yokohama National University, section II (Geology). 8: 29-56, pls 1-3
- 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
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