Admete viridula

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

Admete viridula
Shell of Admete viridula undata (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Cancellariidae
Subfamily:	Admetinae
Genus:	Admete
Species:	A. viridula
Binomial name
Admete viridula (Fabricius, 1780)
Synonyms
Admete abnormis Harmer, 1918 Admete borealis A. Adams, 1855, Admete couthouyi (Jay, 1839) Admete crispa Møller, 1842 Admete distincta Leche, 1878 Admete grandis Mörch, 1869 Admete laevior Leche, 1878 Admete middendorffiana Dall, 1885 Admete producta Sars, 1878 Admete undata Leche, 1878 Admete undatocostata Verkrüzen, 1875 (dubious synonym) Admete viridula var. distincta Leche, 1878 Admete viridula var. elongata Leche, 1878 Admete viridula var. grandis Mörch, 1869 Admete viridula var. laevior Leche, 1878 Admete viridula var. producta (Fabricius, 1780) Admete viridula var. producta Sars G.O., 1878 Admete viridula var. undata Leche, 1878 Admete viridula var. ventricosa Friele, 1879 Cancellaria buccinoides Couthouy, 1838 (non-Sowerby, 1832) Invalid: junior homonym of Cancellaria buccinoides Sowerby, 1832) Cancellaria couthouyi Jay, 1839 (dubious synonym) Murex costellifer Sowerby J. de C., 1832 (dubious synonym) † Nematoma tomiyaensis iiokaensis Ozaki, 1958 Propebela viridula (Fabricius, 1780) Tritonium viridulum Fabricius, 1780 (basionym)

Description

The shell size varies between 9 mm and 27 mm

(Described as Admete borealis; originally in Latin) The shell has an ovate-oblong shape. It is whitish, covered with a brownish-horn epidermis. It contains six convex whorls, the upper ones obscurely longitudinally plicated. The body whorl is ventricose, transversely grooved with somewhat distant grooves. The sutures are impressed. The aperture is oval, with a thin expanded outer lip. The simple columella is arcuate, slightly truncated anteriorly. The outer lip has a sharp margin and is internally simple.

Distribution

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

References

• Cossmann (M.), 1899 - Essais de Paléoconchologie comparée. livraison 3, p. 1-201
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
• Hemmen J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Wiesbaden, 428pp
• Brunel, P., L. Bosse, and G. Lamarche. 1998. Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p
• Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324
• Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp
• Bromley, J.E.C., and J.S. Bleakney. 1984. Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report 24119. 366 p.
• Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p
• Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p.
• Høisæter T. (2011) Revision of the Cancellariidae (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda) in the deep water of the Norwegian Sea, with the description of a new species of Admete. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 91: 493-504

External links

• Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificium, triviale, vernaculumque, synonyma auctorum plurimum, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum capturamque singuli, pro ut detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes. Hafniae (= Copenhagen) & Lipsiae (= Leipzig), Ioannis Gottlob Rothe. xvi + 452 pp., 1 pl
• Mörch, O. A. L. (1869). Catalogue des mollusques du Spitzberg recueillis par le Dr. H. Kroyer pendant le voyage de la corvette La Recherche en juin 1838. Annales de la Société Malacologique de Belgique. 4: 7-32.
• Leche, W. (1878). Öfversigt öfver de af svenska expeditionerna till Novaja Semlja och Jenissej 1875 och 1876 insamlade. Hafsmollusker. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, ny följd. 16(2): 1-86, pls. 1, 2.
• Möller, H. P. C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift. 4: 76-97
• Dall, W. H. (1885). New or specially interesting shells of the Point Barrow Expedition. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 7(460): 523-526
• Verkrüzen, T. A. (1875). Bericht über einen Schabe-Ausflug im Sommer 1874. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 2: 229-240, pl. 8.
• Couthouy, J. P. (1838). Descriptions of new species of Mollusca and shells, and remarks on several Polypii, found in Massachussets Bay. Boston Journal of Natural History. 2(1): 53-111
• Friele, H. (1879). Catalog der auf der norwegischen Nordmeer-Expedition bei Spitzbergen gefundenen Mollusken. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 6: 264-286.
• Jay, J. C. (1839). A catalogue of shells, arranged according to the Lamarckian system; together with descriptions of new or rare species, contained in the collection of John C. Jay, M.D. 3rd ed. Wiley & Putnam, New York. 1-126, plates 1-10
• Harmer F.W. (1914-1918). The Pliocene Mollusca of Great Britain, being supplementary to S.V. Wood's monograph of the Crag Mollusca. Vol. 1. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society. 67(330): 1-200, pl. 1-24
• Sowerby, J. (1815-1818). The mineral conchology of Great Britain; or coloured figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the earth (Vol. II). London, privately published, pp. 1-235 + index, errata and addenda (3 pp.) + supplementary index to vol. II, pp. 240-251; pl. 103-233
• Sars, G. O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania, xiii + 466 pp., pls 1-34 & I-XVIII
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213
• "Admete viridula". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 20 January 2011.
• 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. Conchologia Ingrata 9: 1–8.