Maoricrypta

Maoricrypta
Maoricrypta
apertural view of Maoricrypta costata[verification needed]
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

Species within the genus Maoricrypta include[2]:

References

  1. ^ Finlay H. J. (1926). Trans. New Zealand Inst. 57: 393.
  2. ^ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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