Admete magellanica (Strebel 1905)
- Dataset
- Gastropods from the Burdwood Bank (southwestern Atlantic): an overview of species diversity
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Mollusca
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Neogastropoda
- family
- Cancellariidae
- genus
- Admete
- species
- Admete magellanica
description
Description. Shell height to 13 mm; ovate-fusiform, moderately solid. Protoconch large, somewhat translucent, smooth, of 1.5 bulbous whorls. Teleoconch with up to 3.5 whorls, markedly convex in outline; last whorl comprising about 80 % of total shell height. Suture deep, impressed. Surface white; sculptured with 9 to 12 spiral cords per whorl; last whorl with about 20 additional cords at the base. Aperture ovate, interior white; columella with 2 wide, very low folds, callus narrow, slightly expanded on the base; siphonal canal short, somewhat oblique, wide.
description
Fig. 4 L
materials_examined
Examined material. 1 an. and 7 sh. (MACN-In 40696).
Name
- Homonyms
- Admete magellanica (Strebel 1905)