Admete philippii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
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| Shell of Admete philippii (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Genus: | Admete |
| Species: | A. philippii
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| Admete philippii Ihering, 1907
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Description
editThe shell grows to a length of 13 mm.
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs in the Magellanic Straits. There is also one mentioning off New South Wales, Australia.
References
edit- ^ a b Admete philippii Ihering, 1907. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 April 2010.
- Carcelles, A. (1950) Catálogo de los moluscos marinos de la Patagonia. Anales del Museo Nahuel Huapí, 2, 44–100.
External links
edit- Philippi, R. A. (1855). Observaciones sobre las conchas Magallanes. Anales de la Universidad de Chile. 1855(5): 203–213
- Ihering, H. von. (1907). Les mollusques fossiles du Tertiaire et du Crétacé supérieur de l'Argentine. Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires. ser. 3, 7: xiii, 1–611, 18 pls
- 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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