Admete schythei

Admete schythei
Shell of Admete schythei (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Cancellariidae
Genus:	Admete
Species:	A. schythei
Binomial name
Admete schythei (Philippi, 1855)
Synonyms [1]
Cancellaria schytheiPhilippi, 1855

Admete schythei 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 16 mm in a spiral shape a trait shared by others of its genus.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Magellanic Straits and the Falkland Islands.

References

1. Admete schythei (Philippi, 1855) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 6 April 2010.

• Petit, R.E. & Harasewych, M.G. (2005) Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)- 2nd edition. Zootaxa, 1102, 3–161. NIZT 682

External links

• Philippi, R. A. (1855). Observaciones sobre las conchas Magallanes. Anales de la Universidad de Chile. 1855(5): 203–213
• 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]
• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System