{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{For|ships named Fossarina|Fossarina (ship)}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Fossarina petterdi (MNHN-IM-2000-31259).jpeg |image_caption = Shell of ''Fossarina petterdi'' |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Fossarina |authority = A. Adams & Angas, 1864<ref>Adams A. & Angas G. F. (1864). ''Proc. zool. Soc. London'' '''1863''': 423.</ref> |synonyms_ref = |synonyms = ''Minos'' <small>Hutton, 1884</small> |type_species = ''Fossarina patula'' |type_species_authority = Adams, A. & G.F. Angas, 1863 }}
'''''Fossarina''''' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top shells.<ref name="WoRMS">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</ref>
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.<ref name="Williams 2010">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}}</ref>
==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.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/manualconch09tryorich Tryon (1887), Manual of Conchology IX – Solariidae (by William B. Marshall), Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae]</ref>
==Distribution== This marine genus occurs off Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand; in the East China Sea.
==Species== Species within the genus ''Fossarina'' include:<ref>[http://www.mollusca.co.nz/checklist/checklist_frameset.htm NZ Mollusca] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070221053405/http://www.mollusca.co.nz/checklist/checklist_frameset.htm |date=February 21, 2007 }}</ref><ref>Powell A W B, ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 {{ISBN|0-00-216906-1}}</ref> * ''Fossarina legrandi'' <small>Petterd, 1879</small> * ''Fossarina patula'' <small>A. Adams & Angas, 1863</small> * ''Fossarina petterdi'' <small>Crosse, 1870</small> * ''Fossarina picta'' <small>A. Adams, 1867</small> * ''Fossarina reedi'' <small>(Verco, 1907)</small> * ''Fossarina rimata'' <small>(Hutton, 1884)</small> The Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database also mentions the following species:<ref>[http://clade.ansp.org/obis/search.php/search?taxon=Fossarina&author=&year=&Search=Search&mode=search OBIS ; Fossarina]</ref> * ''Fossarina mariei'' <small>(P. Fischer, 1890)</small> * ''Fossarina variegata'' <small>(A. Adams, 1855)</small> ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Fossarina brazieri'' <small>Angas, 1871</small>: synonym of ''Fossarina patula'' <small>A. Adams & Angas, 1863</small> * ''Fossarina funiculata'' <small>Tenison-Woods, 1880</small>: synonym of ''Fossarina patula'' <small>A. Adams & Angas, 1863</small> * ''Fossarina hoffmeisteri'' <small>Ladd, 1966</small>: synonym of ''Calliotrochus marmoreus'' <small>(Pease, 1861)</small> * ''Fossarina mutabilis'' <small>May W.L., 1909</small>: synonym of ''Risellopsis mutabilis'' <small>May, 1909</small> * ''Fossarina reedi'' <small>(Verco, 1907)</small>: synonym of ''Minopa reedi'' <small>(Verco, 1907)</small> * ''Fossarina simpsoni'' <small>Tenison-Woods, 1876</small>: synonym of ''Fossarina petterdi'' <small>Crosse, 1870</small>
==References== {{Reflist}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070525105510/http://data.acnatsci.org/obis/search.php/6409 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 [31/Dec/1962]. ''A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales''. Mem. Aust. Mus., 11:0-0. * Ladd, H.S., 1966 [31/Dec/1966].''Chitons and gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from the western Pacific Islands''. United States Geological Survey, Professional Pape, 531:0-0.
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Category:Fossarina Category:Trochidae Category:Gastropod genera Category:Taxa named by Arthur Adams (zoologist)