Maurea

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Maurea pellucida (MNHN-IM-2000-31254).jpeg

| image_caption = Shell of Maurea pellucida (lectotype at MNHN, Paris)

| display_parents = 4

| taxon = Maurea

| authority = Oliver, 1926

| synonyms_ref =

| synonyms =

• Alertalex Dell, 1956
• Calliostoma (Calliotropis) Oliver, 1926
• Calliostoma (Maurea) Oliver, 1926
• Calliostoma (Mauriella) W. R. B. Oliver, 1926
• Calliotropis Oliver, 1926
• Calotropis Thiele, 1929
• Maurea (Alertalex) Dell, 1956
• Maurea (Mucrinops) Finlay, 1926
• Mauriella Oliver, 1926
• Mucrinops Finlay, 1926
• Venustas Finlay, 1926
• Venustas (Mucrinops) Finlay, 1926

| type_species = Trochus tigris

| type_species_authority = Gmelin, 1791

}}

Maurea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, in the family Calliostomatidae within the superfamily Trochoidea, the top snails, turban snails and their allies.MolluscaBase (2018). Maurea Oliver, 1926. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465583 on 2018-12-28Williams S.T., Donald K.M., Spencer H.G. & Nakano T. (2010) Molecular systematics of the marine gastropod families Trochidae and Calliostomatidae (Mollusca: Superfamily Trochoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54:783-809.Oliver, W. R. B. 1926. New Zealand Species of Calliostoma. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 17: 107-115.Marshall, B. A. (2016). New species of Venustatrochus Powell, 1951 from New Zealand, and new species of Falsimargarita Powell, 1951 and a new genus of the Calliostomatidae from the southwest Pacific, with comments on some other calliostomatid genera (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Molluscan Research. 36: 119-141.