Forreria

Genus of gastropods

Forreria

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]

## Species

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Species within the genus Forreria include:

* Forreria belcheri (Hinds, 1843)[3]
* Forreria corteziana Berschauer, Petuch and Clark, 2018[4]

## References

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1. ^ Forreria Jousseaume, 1880. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
2. ^ Petuch, Edward; Mardie Drolshagen (2010). Molluscan Paleontology of the Chesapeake Miocene. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. p. 41\. ISBN 9781439811597.
3. ^ Forreria belcheri (Hinds, 1843). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
4. ^ 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)

Taxon identifiers

Forreria|

* Wikidata: Q5470416
* BOLD: 989610
* CoL: 7P2Q7
* GBIF: 2304512
* iNaturalist: 246766
* IRMNG: 1327023
* ITIS: 73454
* Open Tree of Life: 2912308
* Paleobiology Database: 11127
* WoRMS: 403853

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