Admete magellanica
species of mollusc
Admete magellanica is a species of sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Description
The length of the shell varies between 8 mm and 25 mm.
(Original description in German) The shell has a conical-ovate shape. It is thin but quite firm. It is white, somewhat translucent, and covered with a yellowish cuticle.
The spire is sometimes more, sometimes less low, as can be seen from the illustrations, but always lower than the body whorl. The protoconch, which is often nibbled or damaged, has a slightly protruding nucleus. The suture of the first whorl is slightly more oblique than in the following whorls, of which there are in total 4½, separated by a slightly deeper lying suture. They depart from the suture somewhat flattened or slightly arched or shallowly inclined in a roof-like manner, then turn steeply and become slightly arched downwards, creating a more or less distinct blunt or sharp edge, which is sometimes emphasized by a stronger spiral thread running there.
The body whorl is weakly constricted on the spindle side, its aperture edge, slightly angular at the top, slopes diagonally downwards into the basal rim, so that there is no siphonal canal.
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