Maoricrypta

Maoricrypta
apertural view of Maoricrypta costata[verification needed]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Calyptraeidae
Genus:	Maoricrypta Finlay, 1926
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.

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

Species

Species within the genus Maoricrypta include:

• Maoricrypta costata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1824)
• † Maoricrypta haliotoidea Marwick, 1926
• Maoricrypta immersa (Angas, 1865)
• Maoricrypta kopua Marshall, 2003
• Maoricrypta monoxyla (Lesson, 1831)
• † Maoricrypta profunda Hutton
• † Maoricrypta radiata (Hutton, 1873)
• Maoricrypta sodalis B. A. Marshall, 2003
• Maoricrypta youngi Powell, 1940

References

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• Marshall B.A. 2003. A review of the Recent and Late Cenozoic Calyptraeidae of New Zealand (Mollusca: Gastropoda). The Veliger 46(2): 117-144

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