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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
Notes:
Marine, Native - 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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NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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