Spectamen plicatulum

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Spectamen plicatulum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Archaeogastropoda
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Spectamen
Species: S. plicatulum
Binomial name
Spectamen plicatulum
(Murdoch and Suter, 1906)
Synonyms

Minolia plicatula Murdoch and Suter, 1906

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

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[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to the North Island of New Zealand, from North Cape to East Cape.

[edit] Habitat

This deepwater top shell lives at depths of between 65 and 200 m.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is very depressed, and has a very wide perspective umbilicus,about half the width of the base, margined by a strong sharply raised cord. The whole shell is crossed by primary and secondary spirals, with the addition of distant radial folds on the upper surface only.

The external shell coloration is slightly iridescent creamy-buff, with irregularly radial zigzag bands of reddish-purple.

The shell height is up to 5 mm, and the width is up to 7 mm.

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