| Fossarina | |
|---|---|
.jpeg)
| |
| 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 |
| 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:
- Fossarina legrandi Petterd, 1879
- Fossarina patula A. Adams & Angas, 1863
- Fossarina petterdi Crosse, 1870
- Fossarina picta A. Adams, 1867
- Fossarina reedi (Verco, 1907)
- Fossarina rimata (Hutton, 1884)
The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also mentions the following species:
- 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 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
References
- Adams A. & Angas G. F. (1864). Proc. zool. Soc. London 1863: 423.
- 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
- 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 . A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Mem. Aust. Mus., 11:0-0.
- Ladd, H.S., 1966 .Chitons and gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from the western Pacific Islands. United States Geological Survey, Professional Pape, 531:0-0.
| Taxon identifiers | |
|---|---|
| Fossarina | |