Spectamen Explained

Spectamen is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Solariellidae within the superfamily Trochoidea.^[1]

Distribution

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

Species

Species within the genus Spectamen include:^{[2] [3]}

• Spectamen adarticulatum (Barnard, 1963)
• Spectamen aratum (Hedley, 1903)
• Spectamen babylonia Vilvens, 2009^[4]
• 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)^[5]
• 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^[6] 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

• 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

Notes and References

1. 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
2. [Arthur William Baden Powell|Powell A. W. B.]
3. http://data.acnatsci.org/obis/search.php/6216 OBIS
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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