Admete watanabei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
| Admete watanabei | |
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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. watanabei
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| Binomial name | |
| Admete watanabei Shikama, 1962
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Description
editThe shell grows to a length of 18 mm.
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Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off Japan.
References
edit- ^ Admete watanabei Shikama, 1962. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 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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