Admete tenuissima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[2]
| Admete tenuissima | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Genus: | Admete |
| Species: | A. tenuissima
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| Binomial name | |
| Admete tenuissima Okutani & Fujikura, 2002[1]
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Description
editThe length of the shell varies between 16 mm and 20 mm.
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off Japan.
References
edit- ^ Okutani & Fujikura. 2002. Venus the Japanese Journal of Malacology 60 (4): 211–224. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 6 April 2010.
- ^ Admete tenuissima Okutani & Fujikura, 2002. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 November 2012.
External links
edit- 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
- Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System
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