Spectamen verum

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Spectamen verum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Archaeogastropoda
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Spectamen
Species: S. verum
Binomial name
Spectamen verum
(Powell, 1937)
Synonyms

Zeminolia verum Powell, 1937

Spectamen verum 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 northern tip of the North Island of New Zealand, extending to the Three Kings Islands.

[edit] Habitat

This deepwater top shell lives at depths of between 60 and 95 m.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is has finer and more numerous spiral cords than in Spectamen plicatulum, coupled with the wide, deep, and ridge-margined umbilicus of Spectamen luteolum.

The external shell coloration is lemon-yellow, merging into buff, and with a few wavy narrow radial reddish-brown streaks on the upper surface only.

The shell height is up to 3.5 mm, and the width is up to 5.4 mm.

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