''Spectamen'' is a
genus
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of small
sea snail
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s,
marine gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusc
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s in the
family
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Solariellidae
Solariellidae is a family (biology), family of small sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochoidea (superfamily), Trochoidea (according to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), taxonomy of ...
within the superfamily
Trochoidea.
Distribution
This marine genus occurs off
Australia
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,
South Africa
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,
Indonesia
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and the
Philippines
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.
Species
Species within the genus ''Spectamen'' include:
* ''
Spectamen adarticulatum''
(Barnard, 1963)
* ''
Spectamen aratum
''Spectamen'' is a genus of small sea snails, Marine (ocean), marine gastropod molluscs in the family (biology), family Solariellidae within the superfamily Trochoidea (superfamily), Trochoidea.
Distribution
This marine genus occurs off Australi ...
''
(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
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, 1953): synonym of ''
Elaphriella meridiana''
(Dell, 1953)
* ''
Spectamen rikae''
Vilvens, 2003[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] has become a
Cyclophoridae
Cyclophoridae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the order Architaenioglossa belonging to the subclass Caenogastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropod ...
''incertae sedis'' (terrestrial taxon named as marine)
* ''Spectamen semisculptum''
(Martens, 1904): synonym of ''
Zetela semisculpta
''Zetela semisculpta'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Solariellidae.MolluscaBase (2018). ''Zetela semisculpta'' (Martens, 1904). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespeci ...
''
(E. von Martens, 1904)
* ''Spectamen turbynei''
(Barnard, 1963): synonym of ''
Zetela turbynei''
(Barnard, 1963)
References
* 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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Solariellidae
Gastropod genera