Fossarina | |
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Shell of Fossarina petterdi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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
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Synonyms | |
Minos Hutton, 1884 |
Fossarina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top shells. [2]
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]
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]
This marine genus occurs off Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand; in the East China Sea.
Species within the genus Fossarina include:[5][6]
The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also mentions the following species:[7]