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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
TROCHIDAE: FOSSARININAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Trochidae (Family)
> Fossarininae (Subfamily)
> Fossarina (Genus)
> rimata (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Minos rimata Hutton, 1884
Images: Fossarina rimata (Hutton, 1884)
Alive in dead oyster shells, Whangarei Heads, Northland, NZ. 3mm
Found in shell sand, Bland Bay, Northland, NZ. 5mm
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
TROCHIDAE: FOSSARININAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Trochidae (Family)
> Fossarininae (Subfamily)
> Fossarina (Genus)
> rimata (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Minos rimata Hutton, 1884
Details: Fossarina rimata (Hutton, 1884)
Size/Grows to:
Width 5mm, Height 4mm
Distribution:
Northern half of North Island, to Mahia
Geographical Range:
ACE.
Notes:
Marine, Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.58)
  • Nov/1969 Fossarina rimata, Poirieria, 5(2)
  • Hutton, F.W. 1884 Revision of the recent rhipidoglossate and docoglossate Mollusca of New Zealand, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 9 (p.369) Original Description

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Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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