Maoricrypta costata

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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|| taxon = Maoricrypta costata

| authority = (Sowerby, 1824)

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  • Crepidula costata Deshayes, 1830 (unaccepted- homonym and synonym of C. costata G.B. Sowerby I, 1824)
  • Crepidula costata Sowerby, 1824
  • Crepidula lineolata Deshayes, 1830 (possible synonym)

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Maoricrypta costata, or the Ribbed Slipper Shell, is a species of intertidal medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Calyptraeidae. {{WRMS species|397136 |Maoricrypta costata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1824)||13 October 2024}}

Distribution

This species occurs along the East Coast of the North Island, New Zealand: Cape Reinga to Whakatāne.Powell A. W. B., William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 {{ISBN|0-00-216906-1}}

File:Maoricrypta costata (underside) 2.JPG

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