Maoricolpus | |
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A shell of Maoricolpus roseus roseus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
Family: | Turritellidae |
Genus: | Maoricolpus Finlay, 1927 [1] |
Type species | |
Turritella roseaQuoy & Gaimard, 1834 | |
Synonyms [2] | |
Turritella (Maoricolpus)Finlay, 1926 |
Maoricolpus, common name the "New Zealand screw shells", is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turritellidae, the Turritella snails. [2]
This genus is found in New Zealand and Australia.
Species and subspecies in the genus Maoricolpus include:
Alcithoe is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
Zeacumantus is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails or mud snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Batillariidae.
Phenatoma is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae.
Notoacmea pileopsis, commonly known as the black-edged limpet, is a species of sea snail or true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets.
Thylacodes zelandicus is a species of sea snail, a worm snail or worm shell, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Vermetidae, the worm snails. This species was previously known as Serpulorbis zelandicus.
Turritellidae, with the common name "tower shells" or "tower snails", is a taxonomic family of small- to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the Sorbeoconcha clade.
Notoacmea is a southern genus of true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Lottiinae of the family Lottiidae, the true limpets.
Patelloida is a genus of sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Lottiinae of the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets.
Penion is a genus of large marine snails, commonly known as siphon whelks, classified within the mollusc family Austrosiphonidae, the true whelks.
The Naticinae are a subfamily of medium to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.
Tanea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Naticinae ( of the family Naticidae, the moon snails or necklace shells.
Buccinulum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
Aeneator is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
Glaphyrina is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fasciolariidae.
Conjectura is a genus of very small sea snails or micromolluscs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Conradiidae.
Maoricolpus roseus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turritellidae.
Montfortula is a genus of keyhole limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Emarginulinae of the family Fissurellidae.
Tugali is a genus of small sea snails or limpets, a marine gastropod mollusc in the subfamily Emarginulinae of the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.
Marshallena is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Marshallenidae.
Austrofusus is a genus of medium-sized sea snails or whelks, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.