Maoricrypta
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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}}
- 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
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:Taxa named by Harold John Finlay
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