Fossarina
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| Fossarina | |
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| Shell of Fossarina petterdi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Subfamily: | Fossarininae |
| Genus: | Fossarina A. Adams & Angas, 1864[1] |
| Type species | |
| Fossarina patula Adams, A. & G.F. Angas, 1863 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Minos Hutton, 1884 | |
Fossarina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top shells.[2]
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.[3]