Fossarina

Fossarina
Shell of Fossarina petterdi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Family: Trochidae
Subfamily: Fossarininae
Genus: Fossarina
A. Adams & Angas, 1864
Type species
Fossarina patula
Adams, A. & G.F. Angas, 1863
Synonyms

Minos Hutton, 1884

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

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.

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.

Distribution

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

Species

Species within the genus Fossarina include:

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

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. ↑ Adams A. & Angas G. F. (1864). Proc. zool. Soc. London 1863: 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