Spectamen laevior

Spectamen laevior
Original 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
Species:	S. laevior
Binomial name
Spectamen laevior (Schepman, 1908)
Synonyms
Solariella mutabilis var. laevior Schepman, 1908

Spectamen laevior is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.

Description

This species was originally considered a variety of Solariella mutabilis (now a synonym of Spectamen mutabilis) with the following different characteristics: the shell with the peripheral and infraperipheral keel quite or nearly smooth (in one instance also the upper keel); the sculpture of the umbilicus more conspicuous. The finer sculpture of the upper part of the whorls and of the base, varies also in some degree, this last one so much, that it is nearly but never quite smooth.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Timor, Indonesia.

References

• Williams S.T., Smith L.M., Herbert D.G., Marshall B.A., Warén A., Kiel S., Dyal P., Linse K., Vilvens C. & Kano Y. (2013) Cenozoic climate change and diversification on the continental shelf and slope: evolution of gastropod diversity in the family Solariellidae (Trochoidea). Ecology and Evolution 3(4): 887–917

External links

• World Register of Marine Species