Fossarina
Sign in to saveFossarina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top shells.
Species
チビアシヤ属
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderTrochida
- FamilyTrochidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 22
- Family
- Trochidae
- Collections
- NMV, TMAG, USNM, AM, CM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Australia, New Zealand
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fossarina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.