Forreria Explained

Forreria is a genus of marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

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.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Forreria include:

• Forreria belcheri (Hinds, 1843)
• Forreria corteziana Berschauer, Petuch and Clark, 2018^[2]

Notes and References

1. Book: Petuch, Edward. Molluscan Paleontology of the Chesapeake Miocene. 2010. CRC Press. Boca Raton, Florida. 9781439811597. 41. Mardie Drolshagen.
2. 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)