Maurea

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
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

Species within the genus Maurea include:^[1]

• † Maurea acutangula (Suter, 1917)
• Maurea alertae (B. A. Marshall, 1995)
• Maurea antipodensis (B. A. Marshall, 1995)
• Maurea aupouriana (B. A. Marshall, 1995)
• † Maurea barbara Marwick, 1942
• Maurea benthicola (Dell, 1950)
• Maurea blacki (Powell, 1950)
• Maurea chilena (Rehder, 1971)
• † Maurea correlata C. A. Fleming, 1943
• Maurea delli (McLean & Andrade, 1982)
• Maurea eltanini (Dell, 1990)
• Maurea eminens (B. A. Marshall, 1995)
• † Maurea filifera (Suter, 1917)
• † Maurea finlayi Marwick, 1928
• Maurea foveauxana (Dell, 1950)
• † Maurea fragilis (Finlay, 1923)
• Maurea gibbsorum (B. A. Marshall, 1995)
• † Maurea gracilis (P. Marshall, 1918)
• Maurea granti Powell, 1931
• Maurea jamiesoni (B. A. Marshall, 1995)
• Maurea maui (B. A. Marshall, 1995)
• Maurea megaloprepes Tomlin, 1948
• Maurea muriellae (Vilvens, 2001)
• † Maurea nukumaruensis (Laws, 1930)
• Maurea osbornei (Powell, 1926)
• Maurea pellucida (Valenciennes, 1846)
• Maurea penniketi (B. A. Marshall, 1995)
• Maurea punctulata (Martyn, 1784)
• Maurea regalis (B. A. Marshall, 1995)
• Maurea selecta (Dillwyn, 1817)
• Maurea simulans (B. A. Marshall, 1994)
• Maurea spectabilis (A. Adams, 1855)
• † Maurea suteri (Finlay, 1923)
• Maurea tigris (Gmelin, 1791)
• Maurea turnerarum Powell, 1964
• † Maurea waiareka Laws, 1935
• Maurea waikanae (Oliver, 1926)
• † Maurea waiparaensis (Suter, 1917)

References

1. 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.