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Fossarina rimata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Prosobranchia
Order:	Archaeogastropoda
Superfamily:	Trochacea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Fossarina
Species:	F. rimata
Binomial name
	Fossarina rimata; (Hutton, 1884)

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

References

Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

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 '''''Fossarina rimata''''' is a [[species]] of small sea [[snail]], a [[marine (ocean)|marine]] [[gastropod]] [[mollusc]] in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Trochidae]], the top snails.
-==Distribution==
-This species is [[endemic (ecology)|endemic]] to the north east coast of the [[North Island]] of [[New Zealand]], north of [[Auckland]].
-==Habitat==
-This top snail lives in rock crevices, including spaces between rock [[oyster]]s.
-==Shell description==
-The shell is small, thin, [[wiktionary:auriform|auriform]], with a very large oval [[aperture (mollusc)|aperture]].  The outer lip is thin, and the inner lip almost covers the narrow crescentic [[umbilicus (mollusc)|umbilicus]].
-Coloration is pale yellowish to white, with distant dark brown spiral stripes, joined on the upper part of the [[whorl (mollusc)|whorl]]s by diagonal streaks, to form a netted pattern.
-The shell height is up to 4 mm, and the width is up to 5 mm.
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