Admete gracilior

Admete gracilior
Shell of Admete gracilior (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Cancellariidae
Genus:	Admete
Species:	A. gracilior
Binomial name
Admete gracilior (Carpenter in Gabb, 1869)
Synonyms
Admete rhyssa Dall, 1919 Admete seftoni Berry, 1956 Admete woodworthi Dall, 1905 Cancellaria gracilior Carpenter in Gabb, 1869 (original combination)

Admete gracilior is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.

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

References

• 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