Orania 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 trocophore 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

• 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.