Maoricolpus Totally Explained

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Maoricolpus, the New Zealand screw shells, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turritellidae, the Turritella snails.

Distribution

The genus is endemic to New Zealand, and Australia including Tasmania.

Shell description

The shells are rather large and solid, with many more or less straight-sided whorls.
The protoconch has about 2½ smooth whorls, increasing slowly from a small nucleus, and set somewhat mucronately on the rapidly increasing first neanic (or teleoconch) whorl. The outer lip is thin and sinuous, with a broadly concave median sinus.

Species and subspecies in the genus Maoricolpus

Maoricolpus roseus roseus (Quoy and Gaimard, 1834)
Maoricolpus roseus manukauensis Powell, 1931
Maoricolpus finlayi Powell, 1940

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