- Maoricolpus
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Maoricolpus A damaged shell of Maoricolpus roseus roseus Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea Family: Turritellidae Subfamily: Turritellinae Genus: Maoricolpus
Finlay, 1927[1]Species See text
Maoricolpus, common name the "New Zealand screw shells", is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turritellidae, the Turritella snails. This genus is found in New Zealand and Australia.
Species and subspecies
Species and subspecies in the genus Maoricolpus include:
- Maoricolpus finlayi Powell, 1940
- Maoricolpus roseus (Quoy and Gaimard, 1834)
- Subspecies Maoricolpus roseus manukauensis Powell, 1931
References
- ^ Finlay H. J. (1927) Trans. New Zealand Inst. 57: 389.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- New Zealand molluscs
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