Admete contabulata 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 contabulata (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Genus: | Admete |
| Species: | A. contabulata
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| Binomial name | |
| Admete contabulata Friele, 1879
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Description edit
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The length of the shell attains 12 mm, its diameter 4.5 mm.
Distribution edit
This marine species occurs off Svalbard, Norway and off Murmansk, Russian Federation.
References edit
- ^ 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.
External links edit
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