Maurea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, in the family Calliostomatidae within the superfamily Trochoidea, the top snails, turban snails and their allies.[1][2][3][4]

Maurea
Shell of Maurea pellucida (lectotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Calliostomatidae
Genus: Maurea
Oliver, 1926
Type species
Trochus tigris
Gmelin, 1791
Synonyms[1]
  • Alertalex Dell, 1956
  • Calliostoma (Calliotropis) Oliver, 1926
  • Calliostoma (Maurea) Oliver, 1926
  • Calliostoma (Mauriella) W. R. B. Oliver, 1926
  • Calliotropis Oliver, 1926
  • Calotropis Thiele, 1929
  • Maurea (Alertalex) Dell, 1956
  • Maurea (Mucrinops) Finlay, 1926
  • Mauriella Oliver, 1926
  • Mucrinops Finlay, 1926
  • Venustas Finlay, 1926
  • Venustas (Mucrinops) Finlay, 1926

Species edit

Species within the genus Maurea include:[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c 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
  2. ^ Williams S.T., Donald K.M., Spencer H.G. & Nakano T. (2010) Molecular systematics of the marine gastropod families Trochidae and Calliostomatidae (Mollusca: Superfamily Trochoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54:783-809.
  3. ^ Oliver, W. R. B. 1926. New Zealand Species of Calliostoma. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 17: 107-115.
  4. ^ 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.