Zeadmete verheckeni

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.

Natal, South Africa^[1]

• 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.

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