Fossarina

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Fossarina
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Shell of Fossarina petterdi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Subfamily: Fossarininae
Genus: Fossarina
A. Adams & Angas, 1864 [1]
Type species
Fossarina patula
Adams, A. & G.F. Angas, 1863
Synonyms

MinosHutton, 1884

Fossarina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top shells. [2]

Contents

The genus Fossarina was moved from the family Fossariidae to the newly created subfamily Fossarininae within the family Trochidae by Williams et al. in 2010. [3]

Description

The shell is auriform, a little depressed and narrowly umbilicated. The spire is short. The oval aperture is oblique. The lips are rounded. The operculum is multispiral. [4]

Distribution

This marine genus occurs off Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand; in the East China Sea.

Species

Species within the genus Fossarina include: [5] [6]

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also mentions the following species: [7]

Species brought into synonymy

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References

  1. ↑ Adams A. & Angas G. F. (1864). Proc. zool. Soc. London1863: 423.
  2. ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Fossarina A. Adams & Angas, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=512292 on 2020-11-25
  3. ↑ Williams S. T., Donald K. M., Spencer H. G. & Nakano, T. (2010). "Molecular systematics of the marine gastropod families Trochidae and Calliostomatidae (Mollusca: Superfamily Trochoidea)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54(3): 783-809. doi : 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.11.008
  4. ↑ Tryon (1887), Manual of Conchology IX – Solariidae (by William B. Marshall), Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae
  5. ↑ NZ Mollusca Archived February 21, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN   0-00-216906-1
  7. ↑ OBIS ; Fossarina
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