Spectamen luteolum

Taxobox
name = "Spectamen luteolum"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
familia = Trochidae
genus = "Spectamen"
species = "S. luteolum"
binomial = "Spectamen luteolum"
binomial_authority = (Powell, 1937)
synonyms = "Zeminolia luteolum" Powell, 1937

"Spectamen luteolum" is a small deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trochidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to the Three Kings Islands of New Zealand.

Habitat

This deepwater top shell lives at depths of about 260 m.

hell description

The shell is depressed, smooth, except for faint spirals on the early post-nuclear whorls, and a single prominent spiral ridge bordering the wide and deep umbilicus.

The external shell coloration is lemon-yellow, merging into pinkish-buff, and with widely spaced narrow chevrons of light red.

The shell height is up to 4 mm, and the width is up to 5.5 mm.

References

* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1