Spectamen

Spectamen
Drawing with two views of a shell of Spectamen laevior
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Family:	Solariellidae
Genus:	Spectamen Iredale, 1924
Type species
Trochus philippensis R. B. Watson, 1881
Species
See text
Synonyms
Minolops Iredale, 1929 (junior subjective synonym) Solariella (Spectamen) Iredale, 1924 superseded rank Zeminolia Finlay, 1926

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

Distribution

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

Species

Species within the genus Spectamen include:

• Spectamen adarticulatum (Barnard, 1963)
• Spectamen aratum (Hedley, 1903)
• Spectamen babylonia Vilvens, 2009
• Spectamen basilicum (B. A. Marshall, 1999)
• Spectamen bellulum (Angas, 1869)
• Spectamen benthicola (Powell, 1937)
• † Spectamen carinatum (Laws, 1935)
• Spectamen cinctum (Cotton & Godfrey, 1938)
• Spectamen cinereum (Preston, 1909)
• Spectamen epitheca (Iredale, 1929)
• Spectamen euteium (Vilvens, 2009)
• Spectamen exiguum (B. A. Marshall, 1999)
• Spectamen flavidum (B. A. Marshall, 1999)
• Spectamen flavum (Herbert, 1987)
• † Spectamen fossa (Laws, 1932)
• Spectamen franciscanum (Barnard, 1963)
• Spectamen gertruda (Iredale, 1936)
• Spectamen gerula Herbert, 1987
• Spectamen geruloides Herbert, 1987
• Spectamen laevior (Schepman, 1908)
• † Spectamen lenis (Marwick, 1928)
• Spectamen luteolum (Powell, 1937)
• Spectamen marsus Cotton & Godfrey, 1938
• Spectamen martensi (Herbert, 2015)
• Spectamen multistriatum (Thiele, 1925)
• Spectamen mutabile (Schepman, 1908)
• † Spectamen ordo (Laws, 1941)
• Spectamen pardalis Herbert, 1987
• Spectamen philippense (Watson, 1881)
• Spectamen plicatulum (Murdoch & Suter, 1906)
• Spectamen pulcherrimum (Angas, 1869)
• Spectamen roseapicale Herbert, 1987
• Spectamen rubiolae Herbert, 1987
• Spectamen ruthae Herbert, 1987
• Spectamen semireticulatum (Suter, 1908)
• Spectamen sulculiferum Herbert, 1987
• Spectamen tryphenense (Powell, 1930)
• † Spectamen venustum (P. A. Maxwell, 1969)
• Spectamen verum (Powell, 1937)

Species brought into synonymy

• Spectamen corallinum (Cotton & Godfrey, 1935): synonym of Argalista corallina (Cotton & Godfrey, 1935)
• † Spectamen marshalli P. A. Maxwell, 1992: synonym of † Solariella marshalli (P. A. Maxwell, 1992)
• Spectamen meridianum (Dell, 1953): synonym of Elaphriella meridiana (Dell, 1953)
• Spectamen rikae Vilvens, 2003 has become a Cyclophoridae incertae sedis (terrestrial taxon named as marine)
• Spectamen semisculptum (Martens, 1904): synonym of Zetela semisculpta (E. von Martens, 1904)
• Spectamen turbynei (Barnard, 1963): synonym of Zetela turbynei (Barnard, 1963)

References

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• 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