Forreria | |
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Shell of Forreria corteziana (paratype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification
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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 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 within the genus Forreria include: