Spectamen

Taxobox
name = "Spectamen"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Prosobranchia
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
superfamilia = Trochacea
familia = Trochidae
genus = "Spectamen"
genus_authority = Iredale, 1924
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Spectamen" is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top shells.

The shells vary from to depressed , but always widely umbilicated. The radula is "Calliostoma"-like, with a central, three laterals, each with a long denticulate cusp, and relatively few slender smooth marginals.

pecies within the genus "Spectamen"

* "Spectamen bellulum" (Angas, 1869)
* "Spectamen benthicola" (Powell, 1937)
* "Spectamen epitheca" (Iredale,1929)
* "Spectamen flavum" (Herbert,1987)
* "Spectamen franciscana" (Barnard, 1963)
* "Spectamen luteolum" (Powell, 1937)
* "Spectamen marsus" Cotton & Godfrey, 1938
* "Spectamen meridianum" (Dell, 1953)
* "Spectamen plicatulum" (Murdoch and Suter, 1906)
* "Spectamen rikae" Vilvens, 2003
* "Spectamen semireticulatum" (Suter, 1908)
* "Spectamen tryphenense" (Powell, 1930)
* "Spectamen verum" (Powell, 1937)

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* [http://data.acnatsci.org/obis/search.php/6216 OBIS]