Specula (gastropod)

Specula
Specula copiosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda informal group Ptenoglossa
Superfamily:	Triphoroidea
Family:	Cerithiopsidae
Genus:	Specula Finlay, 1926[1]
Type species
Cerithiopsis styliformis Suter, 1908
Species
See text

Specula is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Cerithiopsidae.^[2]

Species[]

Species in the genus Specula include:

• Cecalupo & Perugia, 2013
• Cecalupo & Perugia, 2012
• Cecalupo & Perugia, 2012
• (A. W. B. Powell, 1955)
• Cecalupo & Perugia, 2012
• Cecalupo & Perugia, 2013
• Cecalupo & Perugia, 2013
• Cecalupo & Perugia, 2012
• Cecalupo & Perugia, 2014
• Cecalupo & Perugia, 2012
• (May, 1919)
• Cecalupo & Perugia, 2012
• Cecalupo & Perugia, 2013
• Cecalupo & Perugia, 2013
• Cecalupo & Perugia, 2013
• Cecalupo & Perugia, 2013
• Cecalupo & Perugia, 2012
• Cecalupo & Perugia, 2013
• Laseron, 1956
• Cotton, 1951
• Specula retifera (Suter, 1908)
• Cecalupo & Perugia, 2014
• Specula styliformis (Suter, 1908)
• (Tenison-Woods, 1879)
• Cecalupo & Perugia, 2013
• Cecalupo & Perugia, 2014

Species brought into synonymy

• Specula canaliculata (Suter, 1908): synonym of Specula retifera (Suter, 1908)
• Specula dissimilis (Suter, 1908): synonym of Specula styliformis (Suter, 1908)
• Specula marginata (Suter, 1908): synonym of Mendax marginata (Suter, 1908)
• Specula odhneri (Powell, 1927) : synonym of Mendax trizonalis odhneri'' (Powell, 1927)

References[]

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• GBIF