Fossarina

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

For ships named Fossarina, see Fossarina (ship).

Fossarina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Fossarina
A. Adams & Angas, 1864[1]
Type species
Fossarina patula
Adams, A. & G.F. Angas, 1863
Synonyms

Minos Hutton, 1884

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.[2]

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.[3]

Distribution

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

Species

Species within the genus Fossarina include:[4][5]

The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also mentions the following species:[6]

  • Fossarina mariei (P. Fischer, 1890)
  • Fossarina variegata (A. Adams, 1855)
Species brought into synonymy
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References
  1. Adams A. & Angas G. F. (1864). Proc. zool. Soc. London 1863: 423.
  2. 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
  3. Tryon (1887), Manual of Conchology IX – Solariidae (by William B. Marshall), Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae
  4. NZ Mollusca Archived February 21, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  5. Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  6. OBIS ; Fossarina
  • OBIS
  • Suter, H., 1913. Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. Government Printer, Wellington. xxii 1210 p.
  • Cotton, B.C., 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda. South Australian Government Printer, Adelaide. 1-449
  • Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F., 1962 [31/Dec/1962]. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Mem. Aust. Mus., 11:0-0.
  • Ladd, H.S., 1966 [31/Dec/1966].Chitons and gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from the western Pacific Islands. United States Geological Survey, Professional Pape, 531:0-0.
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