Biology:Orania corallina
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Short description: Species of gastropod
| Orania corallina | |
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| Shell of Orania corallina (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
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| Species: | O. corallina
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| Orania corallina (Melvill & Standen, 1903)
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Orania corallina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Description
Distribution
The length of the shell attains 14 mm.
- Geospatial Information
Country: Philippines
Precise Location: Cebu Is.(North Coast), Bohol Strait
- Ref: [MUSEUMS VICTORIA COLLECTIONS] [1]
This marine species occurs also in the Persian Gulf and off South Africa and Madagascar ; probably throughout the Indian Ocean. In the Pacific in New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands and the Philippines; also Malaysia and Indonesia, living usually at depths less than 100 m.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Orania corallina (Melvill & Standen, 1903). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- Bozzetti L. (2018). Muricopsis hubrechti (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Muricopsinae). A new species from south-eastern Madagascar. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale. 100: 4-6.
- Houart, R. (2020). The Orania fischeriana complex in the Indo-West Pacific and description of a new Cytharomorula species (Gastropoda, Muricidae, Ergalataxinae) from Hawaii. Novapex. 21 (4): 97-106.
- Houart, R.; Kilburn, R. N. & Marais, A. P. (2010). Muricidae. pp. 176-270, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q7099850 entry
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