Admete gracilior
Admete gracilior is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
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Description
The length of the shell varies between 7 mm and 12 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from the Aleutians to California, USA
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References
- Admete gracilior (Carpenter in Gabb, 1869). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 3 November 2012.
- Dall, W.H. (1905) Some new species of mollusks from California. The Nautilus, 18, 123–125
- McLean J.H. (1996). The Prosobranchia. In: Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 2 – The Gastropoda. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 9: 1-160
External links
- United States National Museum, and William Healey Dall. Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean in the collection of the United States National Museum. 1919
- Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences vol. 46, 1956
- 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
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