Admete tabulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
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| Drawing of a shell of Admete tabulata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Genus: | Admete |
| Species: | A. tabulata
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| Binomial name | |
| Admete tabulata G.B. Sowerby III, 1875
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Description
editThe 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
editThis species occurs in Arctic waters.
References
edit- ^ Admete tabulata Sowerby, 1875. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 November 2012.
- ^ 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
edit- 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
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