Admete watanabei

Admete watanabei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Cancellariidae
Genus:	Admete
Species:	A. watanabei
Binomial name
Admete watanabei Shikama, 1962

Admete watanabei 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 18 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan.

References

1. Admete watanabei Shikama, 1962 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 4 November 2012.

• Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 39: 225–383

External links

• Shikama T. (1962). On some noteworthy shells from off Chôshi, Chiba Prefecture. Science Reports of the Yokohama National University, section II (Geology). 8: 29-56, pls 1-3.
• 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