Spectamen

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

Spectamen
Drawing with two views of a shell of Spectamen laevior
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: 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

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)
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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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