''Maoricrypta'' is a

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of small to medium-sized

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Calyptraeidae The Calyptraeidae are a family of small to medium-sized marine prosobranch gastropods.MolluscaBase. Calyptraeidae Lamarck, 1809. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141 on ...

, the slipper snails, cup and saucer shells and Chinese hat shells.Bouchet, P. (2014). Maoricrypta Finlay, 1926. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391490 on 2015-02-04 This marine genus is known to occur off

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Species

Species within the genus ''Maoricrypta'' include: Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'', William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 * '' Maoricrypta costata'' (G.B. Sowerby I, 1824) * † '' Maoricrypta haliotoidea'' Marwick, 1926 * '' Maoricrypta immersa'' ( Angas, 1865) * '' Maoricrypta kopua'' Marshall, 2003 * '' Maoricrypta monoxyla'' (

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, 1831) * † '' Maoricrypta profunda''

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* † '' Maoricrypta radiata'' (Hutton, 1873) * '' Maoricrypta sodalis'' B. A. Marshall, 2003 * '' Maoricrypta youngi'' Powell, 1940

References

* Marshall B.A. 2003. ''A review of the Recent and Late Cenozoic Calyptraeidae of New Zealand (Mollusca: Gastropoda).'' The Veliger 46(2): 117-144 Calyptraeidae Taxa named by Harold John Finlay {{Calyptraeidae-stub