''Maoricolpus'',
common name
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the "New Zealand screw shells", is a
genus
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of
sea snail
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s,
marine gastropod
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mollusc
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s in the family
Turritellidae
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, the
Turritella
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snails.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Maoricolpus Finlay, 1926. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=397134 on 2021-06-21]
This genus is found in
New Zealand
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and
Australia
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.
Species and subspecies
Species and subspecies in the genus ''Maoricolpus'' include:
* † ''
Maoricolpus doni''
Marwick, 1971
* ''
Maoricolpus finlayi''
Powell, 1940
* † ''
Maoricolpus horni''
Marwick, 1971
* † ''
Maoricolpus ongleyi''
Marwick, 1931
* ''
Maoricolpus roseus
Identification
''Maoricolpus rosues'' has a spiral cone shape shell that grows up to 87mm in length and 25mm in width. ''Maoricolpus roseus'' is brownish/purple in colour with a tint of marble. The protoconch of the shell has three to four tiny ...
''
( Quoy and Gaimard
Joseph Paul Gaimard (31 January 1793 – 10 December 1858) was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.
Biography
Gaimard was born at Saint-Zacharie on January 31, 1793. He studied medicine at the naval medical school in Toulon, subsequent ...
, 1834)
** Subspecies ''
Maoricolpus roseus manukauensis''
Powell, 1931
* † ''
Maoricolpus solomoni''
(Marwick, 1928)
* † ''
Maoricolpus waitemataensis''
(Powell & Bartrum, 1929)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* † ''Maoricolpus proroseus''
Marwick, 1931: synonym of ''Maoricolpus roseus''
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
References
*
Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'',
William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
External links
New Zealand molluscs
Turritellidae
Taxa named by Harold John Finlay
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