''Maurea'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s,
marine gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s, in the
family
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Calliostomatidae
Calliostomatidae is a family of sea snails within the superfamily Trochoidea and the clade Vetigastropoda.Gofas, S. (2013). Calliostomatidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetail ...
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 2018-12-28][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.]
Species
Species within the genus ''Maurea'' include:
* † ''
Maurea acutangula''
(Suter, 1917)
* ''
Maurea alertae''
(B. A. Marshall, 1995)
* ''
Maurea antipodensis''
(B. A. Marshall, 1995)
* ''
Maurea aupouriana''
(B. A. Marshall, 1995)
* † ''
Maurea barbara''
Marwick, 1942
* ''
Maurea benthicola''
(Dell, 1950)
* ''
Maurea blacki''
(Powell, 1950)
* ''
Maurea chilena''
(Rehder, 1971)
* † ''
Maurea correlata''
C. A. Fleming, 1943
* ''
Maurea delli''
(McLean & Andrade, 1982)
* ''
Maurea eltanini''
(Dell, 1990)
* ''
Maurea eminens''
(B. A. Marshall, 1995)
* † ''
Maurea filifera''
(Suter, 1917)
* † ''
Maurea finlayi''
Marwick, 1928
* ''
Maurea foveauxana''
(Dell, 1950)
* † ''
Maurea fragilis''
(Finlay, 1923)
* ''
Maurea gibbsorum''
(B. A. Marshall, 1995)
* † ''
Maurea gracilis''
(P. Marshall, 1918)
* ''
Maurea granti''
Powell, 1931
* ''
Maurea jamiesoni''
(B. A. Marshall, 1995)
* ''
Maurea maui''
(B. A. Marshall, 1995)
* ''
Maurea megaloprepes''
Tomlin, 1948
* ''
Maurea muriellae''
(Vilvens, 2001)
* † ''
Maurea nukumaruensis''
(Laws, 1930)
* ''
Maurea osbornei''
(Powell, 1926)
* ''
Maurea pellucida''
(Valenciennes, 1846)
* ''
Maurea penniketi''
(B. A. Marshall, 1995)
* ''
Maurea punctulata''
(Martyn, 1784)
* ''
Maurea regalis''
(B. A. Marshall, 1995)
* ''
Maurea selecta
''Maurea selecta'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Calliostomatidae
Calliostomatidae is a family of sea snails within the superfamily Trochoidea and the clade Vetigastropoda.Gofas, S. (2013). Calliostomati ...
''
(Dillwyn, 1817)
* ''
Maurea simulans''
(B. A. Marshall, 1994)
* ''
Maurea spectabilis''
(A. Adams, 1855)
* † ''
Maurea suteri''
(Finlay, 1923)
* ''
Maurea tigris''
(Gmelin, 1791)
* ''
Maurea turnerarum''
Powell, 1964
* † ''
Maurea waiareka''
Laws, 1935
* ''
Maurea waikanae''
(Oliver, 1926)
* † ''
Maurea waiparaensis''
(Suter, 1917)
References
Calliostomatidae
Gastropod genera
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