Admete microsoma

Admete microsoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Cancellarioidea
Family:	Cancellariidae
Genus:	Admete
Species:	A. microsoma
Binomial name
*Admete microsoma* (Dall, 1908)
Synonyms^[1]
Cancellaria microsoma Dall, 1908

Admete microsoma 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 3.5 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Pacific Mexico.

References

1 2 Admete microsoma (Dall, 1908). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 3 November 2012.

Petit, R.E. & Harasewych, M.G. (2005) Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)- 2nd edition. Zootaxa, 1102, 3-161. NIZT 682

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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