Maoricrypta costata
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Maoricrypta costata (Sowerby, 1824)
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Maoricrypta costata, or the Ribbed Slipper Shell, is a species of intertidal medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Calyptraeidae. [1]
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs along the East Coast of the North Island, New Zealand: Cape Reinga to Whakatāne.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Maoricrypta costata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1824). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 October 2024.
- ^ Powell A. W. B., William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
External links
[edit]- Sowerby I, G. B. (1821–1834). The genera of recent and fossil shells, for the use of students, in conchology and geology. London: G. B. Sowerby.
- Beu, A. (2010). "Marine Mollusca of isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 3. Gastropoda (Vetigastropoda - Littorinimorpha)". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 40 (3–4): 59–180. Bibcode:2010JRSNZ..40...59B. doi:10.1080/03036758.2010.500717.
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