Maoricrypta
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
See text.
Synonyms
Zeacrypta Finlay, 1926

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]

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

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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