Admete viridula

Admete viridula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Cancellarioidea
Family: Cancellariidae
Genus: Admete
Species: A. viridula
Binomial name
Admete viridula
(Fabricius, 1780)
Synonyms[1]
  • Admete borealis A. Adams, 1855,
  • Admete contabulata Friele, 1879
  • Admete couthouyi (Jay, 1839)
  • Admete crispa Møller, 1842
  • Admete distincta Leche, 1878
  • Admete laevior Leche, 1878
  • Admete middendorffiana Dall, 1885
  • Admete producta Sars, 1878
  • Admete undata Leche, 1878
  • Admete undatocostata Verkrüzen, 1875
  • Admete viridula var. laevior Leche, 1878
  • Admete viridula var. producta (Fabricius, 1780)
  • Admete viridula var. ventricosa Friele, 1879
  • Cancellaria buccinoides Couthouy, 1838 (non-Sowerby, 1832)
  • Cancellaria couthouyi Jay, 1839
  • Propebela viridula (Fabricius, 1780)
  • Tritonium viridulum Fabricius, 1780 (basionym)

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

Description

The shell size varies between 9 mm and 27 mm

Distribution

This species is found in circumarctic waters (Norway, Novaya Zemlya, Russia; Bering Strait, Alaska), in the northwest Atlantic Ocean and in the Gulf of Maine.

References

  1. 1 2 Admete viridula (Fabricius, 1780).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 January 2011.

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