Forreria
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| Forreria | |
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| Shell of Forreria corteziana (paratype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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]
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