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 <small>(Barnard, 1963)</small>
- Spectamen aratum <small>(Hedley, 1903)</small>
- Spectamen babylonia <small>Vilvens, 2009</small>
- Spectamen basilicum <small>(B. A. Marshall, 1999)</small>
- Spectamen bellulum <small>(Angas, 1869)</small>
- Spectamen benthicola <small>(Powell, 1937)</small>
- â Spectamen carinatum <small>(Laws, 1935)</small>
- Spectamen cinctum <small>(Cotton & Godfrey, 1938)</small>
- Spectamen cinereum <small>(Preston, 1909)</small>
- Spectamen epitheca <small>(Iredale, 1929)</small>
- Spectamen euteium <small>(Vilvens, 2009)</small>
- Spectamen exiguum <small>(B. A. Marshall, 1999)</small>
- Spectamen flavidum <small>(B. A. Marshall, 1999)</small>
- Spectamen flavum <small>(Herbert, 1987)</small>
- â Spectamen fossa <small>(Laws, 1932)</small>
- Spectamen franciscanum <small>(Barnard, 1963)</small>
- Spectamen gertruda <small>(Iredale, 1936)</small>
- Spectamen gerula <small>Herbert, 1987</small>
- Spectamen geruloides <small>Herbert, 1987</small>
- Spectamen laevior <small>(Schepman, 1908)</small>
- â Spectamen lenis <small>(Marwick, 1928)</small>
- Spectamen luteolum <small>(Powell, 1937)</small>
- Spectamen marsus <small>Cotton & Godfrey, 1938</small>
- Spectamen martensi <small>(Herbert, 2015)</small>
- Spectamen multistriatum <small>(Thiele, 1925)</small>
- Spectamen mutabile <small>(Schepman, 1908)</small>
- â Spectamen ordo <small>(Laws, 1941)</small>
- Spectamen pardalis <small>Herbert, 1987</small>
- Spectamen philippense <small>(Watson, 1881)</small>
- Spectamen plicatulum <small>(Murdoch & Suter, 1906)</small>
- Spectamen pulcherrimum <small>(Angas, 1869)</small>
- Spectamen roseapicale <small>Herbert, 1987</small>
- Spectamen rubiolae <small>Herbert, 1987</small>
- Spectamen ruthae <small>Herbert, 1987</small>
- Spectamen semireticulatum <small>(Suter, 1908)</small>
- Spectamen sulculiferum <small>Herbert, 1987</small>
- Spectamen tryphenense <small>(Powell, 1930)</small>
- â Spectamen venustum <small>(P. A. Maxwell, 1969)</small>
- Spectamen verum <small>(Powell, 1937)</small>
Species brought into synonymy:
- Spectamen corallinum <small>(Cotton & Godfrey, 1935)</small>: synonym of Argalista corallina <small>(Cotton & Godfrey, 1935)</small>
- â Spectamen marshalli <small>P. A. Maxwell, 1992</small>: synonym of â Solariella marshalli <small>(P. A. Maxwell, 1992)</small>
- Spectamen meridianum <small>(Dell, 1953)</small>: synonym of Elaphriella meridiana <small>(Dell, 1953)</small>
- Spectamen rikae <small>Vilvens, 2003</small> has become a Cyclophoridae incertae sedis (terrestrial taxon named as marine)
- Spectamen semisculptum <small>(Martens, 1904)</small>: synonym of Zetela semisculpta <small>(E. von Martens, 1904)</small>
- Spectamen turbynei <small>(Barnard, 1963)</small>: synonym of Zetela turbynei <small>(Barnard, 1963)</small>
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. 1âÂÂ449.
- 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: 483âÂÂ506