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
Subclass:	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]

• Spectamen adarticulatum (Barnard, 1963)
• Spectamen aratum (Hedley, 1903)
• Spectamen babylonia Vilvens, 2009^[5]
• 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)^[6]
• 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^[7] 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)