Spectamen semireticulatum

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Spectamen semireticulatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Archaeogastropoda
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Spectamen
Species: S. semireticulatum
Binomial name
Spectamen semireticulatum
(Suter, 1908)
Synonyms

Minolia semireticulata Suter, 1908

Spectamen semireticulatum 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 South Island of New Zealand, extending to The Snares and the Auckland Islands.

[edit] Habitat

This deepwater top shell lives at depths of between 90 and 185 m.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is similar to Spectamen plicatulum but not so depressed, with six primary spirals on the spire-whorls, compared with four in Spectamen plicatulum, and a narrower umbilicus, only one fourth the diameter of the base.

The shell height is up to 3.2 mm, and the width is up to 5 mm.

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