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Species of gastropod

Fossarina rimata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Fossarina
Species: F. rimata
Binomial name
Fossarina rimata
(Hutton, 1884)

Fossarina rimata is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

Description

The shell grows to a length of 4 mm, its diameter is 5 mm.

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Distribution

This species occurs in New Zealand.

Only dead wash-up shells of the sea snail were recorded at Paratutae Island, Whatipu and at Puponga Point. Living samples of the species were reported at Echinoderm Reef and Mathesons Bay.

References

  1. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Fossarina rimata. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=598231 on 2012-11-29
  2. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  3. Hayward, Bruce W.; Morley, Margaret S. (2004). INTERTIDAL LIFE AROUND THE COAST OF THE WAITAKERE RANGES, AUCKLAND. Auckland Regional Council. p. 56.
  4. Williamson, Jane E.; Creese, Robert G. "Small invertebrates inhabiting the crustose alga Pseudolithoderma sp. (Ralfsiaceae) in northern New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 30 (2): 221–232. doi:10.1080/00288330.1996.9516710.
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979: New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells. Collins, Auckland 500p
  • Spencer, H.G.; Marshall, B.A.; Maxwell, P.A.; Grant-Mackie, J.A.; Stilwell, J.D.; Willan, R.C.; Campbell, H.J.; Crampton, J.S.; Henderson, R.A.; Bradshaw, M.A.; Waterhouse, J.B.; Pojeta, J. Jr (2009). Phylum Mollusca: chitons, clams, tusk shells, snails, squids, and kin, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 161–254
Taxon identifiers
Fossarina rimata


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