Fossarina
Fossarina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top shells.
| Fossarina | |
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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 | |
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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]
- Fossarina patula A. Adams & Angas, 1863
- Fossarina petterdi Crosse, 1870
- Fossarina picta A. Adams, 1867
- Fossarina rimata (Hutton, 1884)
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
- Fossarina brazieri Angas, 1871: synonym of Fossarina patula A. Adams & Angas, 1863
- Fossarina funiculata Tenison-Woods, 1880: synonym of Fossarina patula A. Adams & Angas, 1863
- Fossarina hoffmeisteri Ladd, 1966: synonym of Calliotrochus marmoreus (Pease, 1861)
- Fossarina legrandi Petterd, 1879: synonym of Minopa legrandi Petterd, W.F., 1879
- Fossarina mutabilis May W.L., 1909: synonym of Risellopsis mutabilis May, 1909
- Fossarina reedi (Verco, 1907): synonym of Minopa reedi (Verco, 1907)
- Fossarina simpsoni Tenison-Woods, 1876: synonym of Fossarina petterdi Crosse, 1870
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References
- Adams A. & Angas G. F. (1864). Proc. zool. Soc. London 1863: 423.
- 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
- Tryon (1887), Manual of Conchology IX – Solariidae (by William B. Marshall), Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae
- NZ Mollusca Archived February 21, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- 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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