Spectamen tryphenense

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Spectamen tryphenense
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Archaeogastropoda
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Spectamen
Species: S. tryphenense
Binomial name
Spectamen tryphenense
(Powell, 1930)
Synonyms

Zeminolia tryphenensis Powell, 1930

Spectamen tryphenense 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 including offshore islands.

[edit] Habitat

This deepwater top shell lives at depths of between 10 and 160 m.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is trochiform with an elevated spire. The whorls are narrowly shouldered, and with distant spiral cords on the spire-whorls, faint close spiral threads on the upper base, and strong beaded cords, margining and continuing into a wide umbilical area.

The shell height is up to 5.75 mm, and the width is up to 6.25 mm.

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