Maoricrypta

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

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| image = Maoricrypta costata (underside) 2.JPG

| image_caption = apertural view of Maoricrypta costata{{Verify source|date=November 2009}}

| taxon = Maoricrypta

| authority = Finlay, 1926Finlay H. J. (1926). Trans. New Zealand Inst. 57: 393.

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text.

| synonyms = Zeacrypta Finlay, 1926

| type_species= Crepidula costata G. B. Sowerby I, 1824

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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.Bouchet, P. (2014). Maoricrypta Finlay, 1926. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391490 on 2015-02-04

This marine genus is known to occur off New Zealand and Australia.

Species

Species within the genus Maoricrypta include:Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 {{ISBN|0-00-216906-1}}

References

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  • Marshall B.A. 2003. A review of the Recent and Late Cenozoic Calyptraeidae of New Zealand (Mollusca: Gastropoda). The Veliger 46(2): 117-144

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Category:Calyptraeidae

Category:Taxa named by Harold John Finlay

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