Maoricolpus, common name the "New Zealand screw shells", is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turritellidae, the Turritella 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 and Australia.
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 (Quoy and Gaimard, 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 Finlay H.J. (1926). A further commentary on New Zealand molluscan systematics. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 57: 320-485, pls 18-23