Zeadmete verheckeni
| Zeadmete verheckeni | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Genus: | Zeadmete |
| Species: | Z. verheckeni
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| Binomial name | |
| Zeadmete verheckeni Petit & Harasewych, 2000[1]
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Zeadmete verheckeni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[2]
The specific name verheckeni is in honor of Belgian malacologist André Verhecken.[1]
Description
Z. Verheckeni is described as a small (6-8mm long), thin-shelled cancellarid snail with an ovate outline and stepped spire, which gives it a turreted appearance. Shells have a rounded anterior end. The shoulder of each whorl is sharply tabulate (flattened).
The protoconch is erect, smooth, and consists of about one and a half whorls; it passes directly into the teleconch, where fine, closely spaced axial ribs appear first and then strengthen as low spiral cords develop within a quarter of a whorl.
The soft body of specimens is white. The animal has a short, narrow foot rounded posteriorly, tubular symmetrical tentacles with large black eyes at their bases, and a long, dorsoventrally flattened penis ending in a small papilla.
Distribution
References
- ^ a b c Petit R. E. & Harasewych M. G. (2000). "Additions to the Cancellariid (Mollusca: Neogastropoda) Fauna of South Africa". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 113(1): 145–154. http://hdl.handle.net/10088/8310
- ^ Zeadmete verheckeni Petit & Harasewych, 2000. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 April 2010.
- Hemmen, J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp.
- Verhecken A. (2020). New and poorly known species of Cancellariidae (Neogastropoda: Cancellarioidea) from the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific. Gloria Maris. 59(2): 40-89.