Admete contabulata
Admete contabulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Description
The length of the shell attains 12 mm, its diameter 4.5 mm.The shell is whitish, turrito-fusiform. It has five whorls, which are angulated above, slightly swollen, and tabulated. The suture is slightly impressed. The spire is elongated, with an apex that is obtuse and almost mammillary.
The aperture is oval, expanded, sharply rounded below, and it is equal to half the length of the shell. The columella is straight, with two slightly conspicuous folds. The siphonal canal is very short.
The sculpture is spirally costulate. These ribs, which number 16 on the body whorl, extend to the keel that encircles the uppermost part of the whorls. Above, the surface is now smooth, now furnished with one or two inconspicuous ribs.
On the two middle whorls, there are oblique longitudinal folds, which are nodose around the keel, but these vanish on the body whorl. The primary whorls are convex, smooth, and shining.
The shell is conical with 4-5 whorls on the shoulder with a deep suture. Spiral sculpture has frequent cords which are narrow. There can be 20 cords beneath the shoulder.