Maoricrypta
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| 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] |
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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
Species within the genus Maoricrypta include:[2]
- Maoricrypta costata (Sowerby, 1824)
- Maoricrypta immersa (Angas, 1865)
- Maoricrypta kopua Marshall, 2003
- Maoricrypta monoxyla (Lesson, 1831)
- Maoricrypta profunda Hutton
- Maoricrypta sodalis B. A. Marshall, 2003
- Maoricrypta youngi Powell, 1940
References
- ↑ Finlay H. J. (1926). Trans. New Zealand Inst. 57: 393.
- ↑ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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