Maoricolpus roseus roseus

Taxobox
name = "Maoricolpus roseus roseus"
status =


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
infraclassis = Apogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Cerithiimorpha
superfamilia = Cerithioidea
familia = Turritellidae
genus = "Maoricolpus"
species = "M. roseus"
subspecies = "M. roseus roseus"
trinomial = "Maoricolpus roseus roseus"
trinomial_authority = (Quoy and Gaimard, 1834)
synonyms = "Turritella difficilis" Suter, 1908

"Maoricolpus roseus roseus" is a subspecies of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turritellidae.

Distribution

This subspecies is endemic to New Zealand including the Chatham Islands.

Habitat

This snail lives at depths of between 10 and 90 m.

hell description

The shell is rather large, solid, with a relatively broadly conical spire. The body whorl is sharply angled at the periphery by two closely spaced cords, the upper one the stronger, the remainder of the surface, including the slightly concave base, is closely but irregularly spirally lirate. The operculum is thin, horny, circular and multispiral.

The shell coloration is yellowish, reddish or purplish brown, faintly marbled or streaked in darker brown.

The shell height is up to 86 mm, and the width is up to 25 mm.

References

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