Maoricrypta
Genus of gastropods
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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]
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| Maoricrypta | |
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| apertural view of Maoricrypta costata[verification needed] | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
This marine genus is known to occur off New Zealand and Australia.
Species
Species within the genus Maoricrypta include:[3]
- Maoricrypta costata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1824)
- † Maoricrypta haliotoidea Marwick, 1926
- Maoricrypta immersa (Angas, 1865)
- Maoricrypta kopua Marshall, 2003
- Maoricrypta monoxyla (Lesson, 1831)
- † Maoricrypta profunda Hutton
- † Maoricrypta radiata (Hutton, 1873)
- Maoricrypta sodalis B. A. Marshall, 2003
- Maoricrypta youngi Powell, 1940
