Fossarina

Taxobox
name = "Fossarina"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Prosobranchia
ordo = Archaeogastropoda
superfamilia = Trochacea
familia = Trochidae
genus = "Fossarina"
genus_authority = Adams and Angas, 1864
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Fossarina" is a genus of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc of the family Trochidae, the top shells.

Distribution

This genus is endemic to south east Australia and northern New Zealand.

Habitat

Species in this genus are found in the tidal zone.

hell description

These top shells are small, , with a very large oval aperture. The operculum is horny, circular, and multispiral. The radula is similar to that of the genus "Cantharidus.

pecies

* "Fossarina brazieri" Angas, 1871
* "Fossarina funiculata" Tenison-Woods, 1880
* "Fossarina hoffmeisteri" Ladd,1966
* "Fossarina patula" Adams & Angas, 1863
* "Fossarina petterdi" Crosse, 1870
* "Fossarina rimata" (Hutton, 1884)

References

* [http://www.mollusca.co.nz/checklist/checklist_frameset.htm NZ Mollusca]
* Powell A W B, "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* [http://data.acnatsci.org/obis/search.php/6409 OBIS]