Maoricolpus roseus roseus

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Maoricolpus roseus roseus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusa
Class: Gastropoda
Infraclass: Apogastropoda
Superorder: Caenogastropoda
Order: Sorbeoconcha
Suborder: Cerithiimorpha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Turritellidae
Genus: Maoricolpus
Species: M. roseus
Subspecies: M. roseus roseus
Trinomial name
Maoricolpus roseus roseus
(Quoy and Gaimard, 1834)
Synonyms

Turritella difficilis Suter, 1908

Maoricolpus roseus roseus is a subspecies of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turritellidae.

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[edit] Distribution

This subspecies is endemic to New Zealand including the Chatham Islands.

[edit] Habitat

This snail lives at depths of between 10 and 90 m.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is rather large, solid, with a relatively broadly conical spire. The body whorl is sharply angled at the periphery by two closely spaced cords, the upper one the stronger, the remainder of the surface, including the slightly concave base, is closely but irregularly spirally lirate. The operculum is thin, horny, circular and multispiral.

The shell coloration is yellowish, reddish or purplish brown, faintly marbled or streaked in darker brown.

The shell height is up to 86 mm, and the width is up to 25 mm.

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