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

Admete contabulata
Shell of Admete contabulata (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Cancellariidae
Genus: Admete
Species:
A. contabulata
Binomial name
Admete contabulata
Friele, 1879

Description

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The length of the shell attains 12 mm, its diameter 4.5 mm.

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off Svalbard, Norway and off Murmansk, Russian Federation.

References

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  1. ^ WoRMS. "Admete contabulata Friele, 1879". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  • Høisæter T. (2011) Revision of the Cancellariidae (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda) in the deep water of the Norwegian Sea, with the description of a new species of Admete. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 91: 493–504.
  • Nekhaev I.O. (2018). Distribution of Admete contabulata and Iphinopsis inflata in the Arctic (Gastropoda: Cancellariidae). Ruthenica. 28(4): 163–168.
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