''Spectamen tryphenense'' is a
species
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of
sea snail
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, a
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gastropod
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mollusk
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in the
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Solariellidae
Solariellidae is a family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).Gofas, S. (2011). Solariellidae. Accessed through: World Register of ...
.
[Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Solariella tryphenensis'' (Powell, 1930). Accessed through: ]World Register of Marine Species
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at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=565336 on 2012-12-03 This marine species is
endemic
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to New Zealand and occurs off the
Great Barrier Island
Distribution
This marine species is
endemic
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to
New Zealand
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.
References
* Powell, A.W.B. 1979: ''New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells''. Collins, Auckland 500p
* Marshall, B.A. 1999: ''A revision of the Recent Solariellinae (Gastropoda: Trochoidea) of the New Zealand region''. The Nautilus 113: 4-42
External links
To World Register of Marine SpeciesPowell, A. W. B. (1930). New species of New Zealand Mollusca from shallow-water dredgings. Part 1. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 60: 532-543Williams S.T., Kano Y., Warén A. & Herbert D.G. (2020). Marrying molecules and morphology: first steps towards a reevaluation of solariellid genera (Gastropoda: Trochoidea) in the light of molecular phylogenetic studies. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 86(1): 1–26
tryphenense
Gastropods of New Zealand
Gastropods described in 1930
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