Forreria

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Forreria
Forreria corteziana (MNHN-IM-2014-6953).jpeg
Shell of Forreria corteziana (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Ocenebrinae
Genus: Forreria
Jousseaume, 1880
Type species
Murex belcheriHinds, 1844

Forreria is a genus of marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]

The genus is indigenous to the Pacific coast of California. According to Petuch, they are the closest living relatives of the extinct ecphoras, a diverse lineage of murexes from what is now the North American Eastern Seaboard. [2]

Species

Species within the genus Forreria include:

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References

  1. Forreria Jousseaume, 1880 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 25 April 2010.
  2. Petuch, Edward; Mardie Drolshagen (2010). Molluscan Paleontology of the Chesapeake Miocene. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. p. 41. ISBN   9781439811597.
  3. Forreria belcheri (Hinds, 1843) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 25 April 2010.
  4. David P. Berschauer, Edward J. Petuch and Roger N. Clark, A New Species of Forreria (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Ocenebrinae) from the Sea of Cortez, Mexico; The Festivus,vol. 50 August 2018)