Spectamen | |
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Drawing with two views of a shell of Spectamen laevior | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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 | |
ZeminoliaFinlay, 1926 |
Spectamen is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Solariellidae within the superfamily Trochoidea. [2]
This marine genus occurs off Australia, South Africa, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Species within the genus Spectamen include: [3] [4]
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