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Admete tenuissima

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ4683371 ↗
Source-derived summary

Admete tenuissima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 16 mm and 20 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan.

References

External links

Hemmen J. (2007) Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and errata for, Recent Cancellariidae by Jens Hemmen, 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Admete tenuissima” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.