- Maoricolpus roseus
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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
References
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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