Orania corallina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
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| Shell of Orania corallina (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Orania |
| Species: | O. corallina
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| Binomial name | |
| Orania corallina (Melvill & Standen, 1903)
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Description edit
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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 edit
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]
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- 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 edit
- ^ a b Orania corallina (Melvill & Standen, 1903). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- ^ a b "Reproduction Summary - Orania corallina". www.sealifebase.ca. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
- ^ a b "Orania corallina (Melvill & Standen 1903) - Encyclopedia of Life". eol.org. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
- ^ "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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