Orania corallina

Orania corallina
Shell of Orania corallina (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Orania
Species:
O. corallina
Binomial name
Orania corallina
(Melvill & Standen, 1903)
Synonyms[1]
  • Muricopsis hubrechti Bozzetti, 2018
  • Peristernia corallina Melvill & Standen, 1903

Orania corallina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Description

Orania corallina is also a non-broadcast spawner. Life cycle does not include trochophore stage.[2] It has internal fertilization.[2]

It has dextrally coiled body symmetry.[3]

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. [3]

  • Geospatial Information

Countries: Philippines, North Zululand, South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, and The Seychelles (living usually at depths less than 100 m)[4]

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. ^ a b Orania corallina (Melvill & Standen, 1903). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
  2. ^ a b "Reproduction Summary - Orania corallina". www.sealifebase.ca. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Orania corallina (Melvill & Standen 1903) - Encyclopedia of Life". eol.org. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  4. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Orania corallina (Melvill & Standen, 1903)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
  • 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.


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