{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = | image = Spectamen laevior 001.jpg | image_caption = Drawing with two views of a shell of ''Spectamen laevior'' | taxon = Spectamen | authority = Iredale, 1924<ref>Iredale T. (1924). ''Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales'' '''49''': 182, 227.</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = ''Zeminolia'' <small>Finlay, 1926</small> | type_species = ''Trochus philippensis'' | type_species_authority = R. B. Watson, 1881 }}
'''''Spectamen''''' is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Solariellidae within the superfamily Trochoidea.<ref>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</ref>
==Distribution== This marine genus occurs off Australia, South Africa, Indonesia and the Philippines.
== Species == Species within the genus ''Spectamen'' include:<ref>Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 {{ISBN|0-00-216906-1}}</ref><ref>[http://data.acnatsci.org/obis/search.php/6216 OBIS]</ref> * ''Spectamen adarticulatum'' <small>(Barnard, 1963)</small> * ''Spectamen aratum'' <small>(Hedley, 1903)</small> * ''Spectamen babylonia'' <small>Vilvens, 2009</small><ref>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</ref> * ''Spectamen basilicum'' <small>(B. A. Marshall, 1999)</small> * ''Spectamen bellulum'' <small>(Angas, 1869)</small> * ''Spectamen benthicola'' <small>(Powell, 1937)</small> * † ''Spectamen carinatum'' <small>(Laws, 1935)</small> * ''Spectamen cinctum'' <small>(Cotton & Godfrey, 1938)</small> * ''Spectamen cinereum'' <small>(Preston, 1909)</small> * ''Spectamen epitheca'' <small>(Iredale, 1929)</small> * ''Spectamen euteium'' <small>(Vilvens, 2009)</small> * ''Spectamen exiguum'' <small>(B. A. Marshall, 1999)</small> * ''Spectamen flavidum'' <small>(B. A. Marshall, 1999)</small> * ''Spectamen flavum'' <small>(Herbert, 1987)</small> * † ''Spectamen fossa'' <small>(Laws, 1932)</small> * ''Spectamen franciscanum'' <small>(Barnard, 1963)</small> * ''Spectamen gertruda'' <small>(Iredale, 1936)</small> * ''Spectamen gerula'' <small>Herbert, 1987</small> * ''Spectamen geruloides'' <small>Herbert, 1987</small> * ''Spectamen laevior'' <small>(Schepman, 1908)</small> * † ''Spectamen lenis'' <small>(Marwick, 1928)</small> * ''Spectamen luteolum'' <small>(Powell, 1937)</small> * ''Spectamen marsus'' <small>Cotton & Godfrey, 1938</small> * ''Spectamen martensi'' <small>(Herbert, 2015)</small> * ''Spectamen multistriatum'' <small>(Thiele, 1925)</small> * ''Spectamen mutabile'' <small>(Schepman, 1908)</small> * † ''Spectamen ordo'' <small>(Laws, 1941)</small> * ''Spectamen pardalis'' <small>Herbert, 1987</small> * ''Spectamen philippense'' <small>(Watson, 1881)</small><ref>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</ref> * ''Spectamen plicatulum'' <small>(Murdoch & Suter, 1906)</small> * ''Spectamen pulcherrimum'' <small>(Angas, 1869)</small> * ''Spectamen roseapicale'' <small>Herbert, 1987</small> * ''Spectamen rubiolae'' <small>Herbert, 1987</small> * ''Spectamen ruthae'' <small>Herbert, 1987</small> * ''Spectamen semireticulatum'' <small>(Suter, 1908)</small> * ''Spectamen sulculiferum'' <small>Herbert, 1987</small> * ''Spectamen tryphenense'' <small>(Powell, 1930)</small> * † ''Spectamen venustum'' <small>(P. A. Maxwell, 1969)</small> * ''Spectamen verum'' <small>(Powell, 1937)</small>
; Species brought into synonymy: * ''Spectamen corallinum'' <small>(Cotton & Godfrey, 1935)</small>: synonym of ''Argalista corallina'' <small>(Cotton & Godfrey, 1935)</small> * † ''Spectamen marshalli'' <small>P. A. Maxwell, 1992</small>: synonym of † ''Solariella marshalli'' <small>(P. A. Maxwell, 1992)</small> * ''Spectamen meridianum'' <small>(Dell, 1953)</small>: synonym of ''Elaphriella meridiana'' <small>(Dell, 1953)</small> * ''Spectamen rikae'' <small>Vilvens, 2003</small><ref>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</ref> has become a Cyclophoridae ''incertae sedis'' (terrestrial taxon named as marine) * ''Spectamen semisculptum'' <small>(Martens, 1904)</small>: synonym of ''Zetela semisculpta'' <small>(E. von Martens, 1904)</small> * ''Spectamen turbynei'' <small>(Barnard, 1963)</small>: synonym of ''Zetela turbynei'' <small>(Barnard, 1963)</small>
==References== {{Commons category}} {{Reflist}} * 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
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Category:Spectamen Category:Solariellidae Category:Gastropod genera Category:Taxa named by Tom Iredale