Admete contabulata

Admete contabulata
Shell of Admete contabulata (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Cancellariidae
Genus:	Admete
Species:	A. contabulata
Binomial name
Admete contabulata Friele, 1879

Admete contabulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 12 mm, its diameter 4.5 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The shell is whitish, turrito-fusiform (tower-shaped and spindle-shaped). It has five whorls, which are angulated above, slightly swollen, and tabulated. The suture is slightly impressed. The spire is elongated, with an apex that is obtuse (blunt) and almost mammillary (nipple-shaped).

The aperture is oval, expanded, sharply rounded below, and it is equal to half the length of the shell. The columella is straight, with two slightly conspicuous folds (plicae). The siphonal canal is very short.

The sculpture is spirally costulate (having small spiral ribs). These ribs, which number 16 on the body whorl, extend to the keel that encircles the uppermost part of the whorls. Above, the surface is now smooth, now furnished with one or two inconspicuous ribs.

On the two middle whorls, there are oblique longitudinal folds, which are nodose (knobbed) around the keel, but these vanish on the body whorl. The primary whorls are convex, smooth, and shining. ^[2]

(A later description)The shell is conical with 4-5 whorls on the shoulder with a deep suture. Spiral sculpture has frequent cords which are narrow. There can be 20 cords beneath the shoulder. ^[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Svalbard, Norway and off Murmansk, Russian Federation.

References

1. WoRMS. "Admete contabulata Friele, 1879". World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 25 April 2024.
2. Friele, H. (1879). Catalog der auf der norwegischen Nordmeer-Expedition bei Spitzbergen gefundenen Mollusken. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 6: 264-286 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
3. "Admete Contabulata and Iphinopsis Inflata in the Arctic (Gastropoda: Cancellariidae)". Docslib. Retrieved 24 November 2025.

• 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.