Zeadmete verheckeni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
The specific name verheckeni is in honor of Belgian malacologist André Verhecken.
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 Natal, South Africa
References
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.