Orania corallina | |
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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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Synonyms [1] | |
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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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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]
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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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
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.
Orania corallina | |
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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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Synonyms [1] | |
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Orania corallina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]
![]() | This section is empty. You can help by
adding to it. (April 2010) |
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]
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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adding to it. (August 2021) |
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
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.