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Forreria
Sign in to saveForreria is a genus of marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyMuricidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 495
- With media
- 197
- Family
- Muricidae
- Collections
- LACM
- Recorded in
- United States
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Forreria is a genus of marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Forreria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.