Maoricolpus roseus

Maoricolpus roseus roseus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Turritellidae
Subfamily:	Turritellinae
Genus:	Maoricolpus
Species:	M. roseus
Binomial name
Maoricolpus roseus (Quoy and Gaimard, 1834)
Synonyms
Turritella difficilis Suter, 1908

Maoricolpus roseus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turritellidae, found only in New Zealand.

A subspecies of this species has been described: Maoricolpus roseus manukauensis Powell, 1931

References

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1