''Forreria'' is a
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of
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gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the
family
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Muricidae
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, the murex snails or rock snails.
The genus is indigenous to the
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. According to Petuch, they are the closest living relatives of the extinct
ecphora
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s, a diverse lineage of murexes from what is now the
North America
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n
Eastern Seaboard.
Species
Species within the genus ''Forreria'' include:
* ''
Forreria belcheri
''Forreria belcheri'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae
Muricidae is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, commonly known as murex ...
''
(Hinds, 1843)
* ''
Forreria corteziana''
Berschauer, Petuch and Clark, 2018 [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)]
References
Ocenebrinae
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