Forreria
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| Shell of Forreria corteziana (paratype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Ocenebrinae |
| Genus: | Forreria Jousseaume, 1880 |
| Type species | |
| Murex belcheri Hinds, 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
[edit | edit source]Species within the genus Forreria include:
- Forreria belcheri (Hinds, 1843)[3]
- Forreria corteziana Berschauer, Petuch and Clark, 2018[4]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Forreria Jousseaume, 1880. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
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- ^ Forreria belcheri (Hinds, 1843). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
- ^ 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)
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