Maoricrypta costata

Maoricrypta costata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Calyptraeoidea
Family:	Calyptraeidae
Genus:	Maoricrypta
Species:	M. costata
Binomial name
Maoricrypta costata (Sowerby, 1824)
Synonyms
Crepidula costata Deshayes, 1830 (unaccepted- homonym and synonym of C. costata G.B. Sowerby I, 1824) Crepidula costata Sowerby, 1824 Crepidula lineolata Deshayes, 1830 (possible synonym)

Maoricrypta costata, or the Ribbed Slipper Shell, is a species of intertidal medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Calyptraeidae.

Distribution

This species occurs along the East Coast of the North Island, New Zealand: Cape Reinga to Whakatāne.

Maoricrypta costata, ventral view showing "shelf" or "deck".

External links

• 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.