Admete philippii

Admete philippii
Shell of Admete philippii (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Cancellariidae
Genus:	Admete
Species:	A. philippii
Binomial name
Admete philippii Ihering, 1907
Synonyms [1]
Admete philippiiCarcelles, 1950 Cancellaria australisPhilippi, 1855 (non-Sowerby, 1832)

Admete philippii 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 13 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Magellanic Straits. There is also one mentioning off New South Wales, Australia.

References

1. Admete philippii Ihering, 1907 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 6 April 2010.

• Carcelles, A. (1950) Catálogo de los moluscos marinos de la Patagonia. Anales del Museo Nahuel Huapí, 2, 44–100.

External links

• Philippi, R. A. (1855). Observaciones sobre las conchas Magallanes. Anales de la Universidad de Chile. 1855(5): 203–213
• Ihering, H. von. (1907). Les mollusques fossiles du Tertiaire et du Crétacé supérieur de l'Argentine. Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires. ser. 3, 7: xiii, 1–611, 18 pls
• 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