Admete gracilior

Admete gracilior
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Cancellarioidea
Family:	Cancellariidae
Genus:	Admete
Species:	A. gracilior
Binomial name
*Admete gracilior* (Carpenter in Gabb, 1869)

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

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

↑ Admete gracilior (Carpenter in Gabb, 1869). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 3 November 2012.

External links

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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