Nothoadmete antarctica
Appearance
Nothoadmete antarctica | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Cancellariidae |
Genus: | Nothoadmete |
Species: | N. antarctica
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Binomial name | |
Nothoadmete antarctica (Strebel, 1908)
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Nothoadmete antarctica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
Description
[edit]The shell grows to a length of 12 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in Antarctic waters off South Georgia Islands, the South Orkneys and the South Shetlands
References
[edit]- ^ a b Nothoadmete antarctica (Strebel, 1908). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 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
- 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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