Spectamen

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Spectamen
Spectamen laevior 001.jpg
Drawing with two views of a shell of Spectamen laevior
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Solariellidae
Genus: Spectamen
Iredale, 1924[1]
Type species
Trochus philippensis
R. B. Watson, 1881
Species

See text

Synonyms

Zeminolia Finlay, 1926

Spectamen is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Solariellidae within the superfamily Trochoidea.[2]

Distribution[]

This marine genus occurs off Australia, South Africa, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Species[]

Species within the genus Spectamen include:[3][4]

Species brought into synonymy
  • Spectamen benthicola (Powell, 1937): synonym of Solariella benthicola (Powell, 1937)
  • Spectamen luteolum (Powell, 1937): synonym of Solariella luteola (Powell, 1937)
  • Spectamen meridianum (Dell, 1953): synonym of Archiminolia meridiana (Dell, 1953)
  • Spectamen plicatulum (Murdoch & Suter, 1906): synonym of Solariella plicatula (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
  • Spectamen rikae Vilvens, 2003[7] has become a Cyclophoridae incertae sedis
  • Spectamen semireticulatum (Suter, 1908): synonym of Solariella semireticulata (Suter, 1908)
  • Spectamen tryphenense (Powell, 1930): synonym of Solariella tryphenensis (Powell, 1930)
  • Spectamen verum (Powell, 1937): synonym of Solariella vera (Powell, 1937)

References[]

  1. ^ Iredale T. (1924). Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales 49: 182, 227.
  2. ^ WoRMS (2010). Spectamen. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413465 on 6 April 2011
  3. ^ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  4. ^ OBIS
  5. ^ WoRMS (2010). Spectamen babylonia Vilvens, 2009. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=458575 on 2010-04-22
  6. ^ WoRMS (2009). Spectamen philippense (Watson, 1881). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413466 on 2010-04-22
  7. ^ WoRMS (2010). Spectamen rikae Vilvens, 2003. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.eu/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=458556 on 2010-04-22
  • Ludbrook, N. H. (1956). The molluscan fauna of the Pliocene strata underlying the Adelaide Plains. Part 3. Scaphopoda, Polyplacophora, Gastropoda (Haliotidae to Tornidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 79 : 1-36
  • Cotton, B.C. (1959). South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. Adelaide : Govt. Printer. pp. 1–449.
  • Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F., 1962 .A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Mem. Aust. Mus., 11:0-0.
  • Powell, A.W.B., 1974. New Zealand molluscan systematics with descriptions of new species. Part 8. Rec. Auckland Inst. Mus., 11:197-207
  • Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506
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