Nothoadmete delicatula

Nothoadmete delicatula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Cancellarioidea
Family: Cancellariidae
Genus: Nothoadmete
Species: N. delicatula
Binomial name
Nothoadmete delicatula
(E.A. Smith, 1907)
Synonyms[1]

Admete delicatula E.A. Smith, 1907

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

Nothaodmete delicatula has a pale, grayish-white spiral shell approximately 5mm in length.

Specimens of this species have been collected in the Ross Sea, off the coast of Antarctica, as well as off of that part of the Antarctic coast that faces Australia.

References

http://invertebrates.si.edu/antiz/taxon_view.cfm?ScreenWidth=1003&ScreenHeight=567&TAXON=6697&MODE=taxon


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