Maoricrypta
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| Maoricrypta | |
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| apertural view of Maoricrypta costata[verification needed] | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Calyptraeidae |
| Genus: | Maoricrypta Finlay, 1926[1] |
| Type species | |
| Crepidula costata G. B. Sowerby I, 1824 | |
| Species | |
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See text. | |
| Synonyms | |
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Zeacrypta Finlay, 1926 | |
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.[2]
This marine genus is known to occur off New Zealand and Australia.
