Maoricrypta

Maoricrypta
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]
Type species
Crepidula costata G. B. Sowerby I, 1824
Species

See text.

Synonyms

Zeacrypta Finlay, 1926

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. [2]

This marine genus is known to occur off New Zealand and Australia.

Species

Species within the genus Maoricrypta include:[3]

References

  1. Finlay H. J. (1926). Trans. New Zealand Inst. 57: 393.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2014). Maoricrypta Finlay, 1926. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391490 on 2015-02-04
  3. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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