Admete ovata

Admete ovata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Cancellariidae
Genus:	Admete
Species:	A. ovata
Binomial name
Admete ovata E.A. Smith, 1875

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

Description

The shell grows to a length of 6 mm, its diameter 3.5 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan.

References

1. Admete ovata E.A. Smith, 1875 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 3 November 2012.

External links

• Smith, E. A. (1875). A list of the Gasteropoda collected in Japanese seas by Commander H. C. St. John, R. N. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 4, 15: 414-427
• 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