“CANCELLARIA (ADMETE) CARINATA, n. sp.
St. 149 d. Jan. 20, 1874. Lat. 49° 28' S., long, 70º 13' E. Royal Sound, Kerguelen. 28 fms. Mud.
Shell.—Broadly ovate, carinate, spiralled, with a very short, blunt, scalar spire. Sculpture. Longitudinals—there are only fine, sharp, unequal puckerings on the lines of growth. Spirals—a sharp flanged keel lies about the middle of the whorls; above this is the horizontal, slightly concave shoulder, on which are no spirals; below the keel the whole surface is scored with fine prominent rounded unequal threads, parted by broader intervals; those on the snout are feeble. Colour white. Spire very short and depressed, but rising in broad shallow steps. Apex small, raised. Whorls 5, flattened or even slightly concave above, strongly keeled and angulated in the middle, of regular increase; the last is very large and ventricose, with an elongated but convex base and a very small snout. Suture impressed, very horizontal, Mouth fully half the size of the shell, oval, angulated at the keel and at the base of the pillar. Outer lip rounded and open, advancing a little in front of the point of the pillar. Inner lip thinly spread on the body, with a small chink in front behind the pillar, the edge of which is narrow and twisted, with two indistinct folds above it. H. 0.4. B. 0.28. Penultimate whorl, height 0.07. Mouth, height 0.3, breadth 0.17.
I failed to extract the animal from the shell; but plainly it had operculum. The extreme bluntness and tabulation of the spire give a very peculiar aspect to this species.”
(Watson, 1882: 327)
Zeadmete watsoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
Zeadmete watsoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
