Forreria

Forreria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Ocenebrinae
Genus:	Forreria; Jousseaume, 1880

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

Species within the genus Forreria include:

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

References

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

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[WoRMS-1] Forreria Jousseaume, 1880. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.

[CHPetuch-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)