Fossarina rimata

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

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This species occurs in New Zealand.Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 {{ISBN|0-00-216906-1}}

Only dead wash-up shells of the sea snail were recorded at Paratutae Island, Whatipu and at Puponga Point.{{Cite book |last=Hayward |first=Bruce W. |title=INTERTIDAL LIFE AROUND THE COAST OF THE WAITAKERE RANGES, AUCKLAND |last2=Morley |first2=Margaret S. |publisher=Auckland Regional Council |year=2004 |pages=56}} Living samples of the species were reported at Echinoderm Reef and Mathesons Bay.{{Cite journal |last=Williamson |first=Jane E. |last2=Creese |first2=Robert G. |title=Small invertebrates inhabiting the crustose alga Pseudolithoderma sp. (Ralfsiaceae) in northern New Zealand |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00288330.1996.9516710 |journal=New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=221-232 |doi=10.1080/00288330.1996.9516710}}

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• 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

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rimata

Category:Gastropods described in 1884

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