''Orania corallina'' is a

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sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

in the

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Muricidae Muricidae is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, commonly known as murex snails or rock snails. With about 1,600 living species, the Muricidae represent almost 10% of the Neogas ...

, the murex snails or rock snails.

Description

Orania corallina is also a non-broadcast spawner. Life cycle does not include trochophore stage. It has internal fertilization. It has dextrally coiled body symmetry.

Distribution

The length of the shell attains 14 mm. The body volume was 0.356 cm^3, and its wet body mass was 0.623 g. *Geospatial Information Countries: Philippines, North Zululand, South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, and The Seychelles (living usually at depths less than 100 m) Precise Location: Cebu Is.(North Coast), Bohol Strait *Ref: USEUMS VICTORIA COLLECTIONS

This marine species occurs also in the

Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf ( fa, خلیج فارس, translit=xalij-e fârs, lit=Gulf of Persis, Fars, ), sometimes called the ( ar, اَلْخَلِيْجُ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a Mediterranean sea (oceanography), me ...

and off South Africa and

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

; 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

* 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

Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R. (1903). Descriptions of sixty-eight new Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, dredged by the Indo-European Telegraph Service, 1901–1903. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (7) 12: 289-324
Gastropods described in 1903 Orania (gastropod) {{Ergalataxinae-stub