Admete tabulata

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Admete tabulata
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Drawing of a shell of Admete tabulata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Cancellariidae
Genus: Admete
Species:
A. tabulata
Binomial name
Admete tabulata
G.B. Sowerby III, 1875

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

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Description

The shell grows to a length of 22 mm.

The whorls exhibit a narrow tabulate structure, characterized by granular texture resulting from intersecting ribs. The shell, predominantly white, is covered by a brownish epidermis. The columella displays minute plications. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in Arctic waters.

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