| Orania corallina | |
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| Shell of Orania corallina (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Orania |
| Species: | O. corallina |
| Binomial name | |
| Orania corallina (Melvill & Standen, 1903) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Orania corallina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]
Orania corallina is also a non-broadcast spawner. Life cycle does not include trochophore stage. [2] It has internal fertilization. [2]
It has dextrally coiled body symmetry. [3]
The length of the shell attains 14 mm. The body volume was 0.356 cm^3, and its wet body mass was 0.623 g. [3]
Countries: Philippines, North Zululand, South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, and The Seychelles (living usually at depths less than 100 m) [4]
Precise Location: Cebu Is.(North Coast), Bohol Strait
This marine species occurs also in the Persian Gulf and off South Africa and Madagascar; probably throughout the Indian Ocean. In the Pacific in New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands and the Philippines; also Malaysia and Indonesia, living usually at depths less than 100 m.
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