Maoricolpus roseus

Maoricolpus roseus
Maoricolpus roseus roseus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Turritellidae
Subfamily: Turritellinae
Genus: Maoricolpus
Species: M. roseus
Binomial name
Maoricolpus roseus
(Quoy and Gaimard, 1834)
Synonyms

Turritella difficilis Suter, 1908

Maoricolpus roseus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turritellidae, found only in New Zealand.

A subspecies of this species has been described: Maoricolpus roseus manukauensis Powell, 1931

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