Forreria

Forreria
	Shell of Forreria corteziana (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Ocenebrinae
Genus:	Forreria; Jousseaume, 1880
Type species
	Murex belcheri Hinds, 1844;

Forreria is a genus of marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

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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]

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