Admetula

Admetula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Cancellarioidea
Family: Cancellariidae
Subfamily: Admetinae
Genus: Admetula
Cossmann, 1889
Type species
Cancellaria evulsa Solander in Brander, 1766

Admetula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Admetula include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Admetula malacitana Vera-Peláez & Muñiz-Solis, 1995: synonym of Admetula italica (d'Ancona, 1872)

References

  • Hemmen J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden, 428pp
  • Verhecken A. (2011) The Cancellariidae of the Panglao Marine Biodiversity Project 2004 and the Panglao 2005 and Aurora 2007 deep sea cruises in the Philippines, with description of six new species (Neogastropoda, Cancellarioidea). Vita Malacologica 9: 1-60


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