Spectamen

Spectamen
Drawing with two views of a shell of Spectamen laevior
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family:	Solariellidae
Genus:	Spectamen Iredale, 1924[1]
Type species
Trochus philippensis R. B. Watson, 1881
Species
See text
Synonyms
Zeminolia Finlay, 1926

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

Distribution

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

Species

Species within the genus Spectamen include:^[3][4]

• Spectamen adarticulatum (Barnard, 1963)
• Spectamen babylonia Vilvens, 2009^[5]
• Spectamen bellulus (Angas, 1869)
• Spectamen epithecus (Iredale,1929)
• Spectamen flavum (Herbert,1987)
• Spectamen franciscanum (Barnard, 1963)
• Spectamen gerula Herbert, 1987
• Spectamen geruloides Herbert, 1987
• Spectamen laevior (Schepman, 1908)
• Spectamen marsus Cotton & Godfrey, 1938
• Spectamen multistriatum (Thiele, 1925)
• Spectamen mutabilis (Schepman, 1908)
• Spectamen pardalis Herbert, 1987
• Spectamen philippense (Watson, 1881)^[6]
• Spectamen roseapicale Herbert, 1987
• Spectamen rubiolae Herbert, 1987
• Spectamen ruthae Herbert, 1987
• Spectamen semisculptum (Martens, 1904)
• Spectamen sulculiferum Herbert, 1987
• Spectamen turbynei (Barnard, 1963)

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)

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