Maoricrypta | |
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apertural view of Maoricrypta costata | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Calyptraeoidea |
Family: | Calyptraeidae |
Genus: | Maoricrypta Finlay, 1926[1] |
Species | |
See text. |
Maoricrypta is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Calyptraeidae, the slipper snails, cup and saucer shells and Chinese hat shells.
This genus is known to occur in New Zealand and Australia.
Species within the genus Maoricrypta include[2]: