Orania corallina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Description Orania corallina is also a non-broadcast spawner. Life cycle does not include trochophore stage. It has internal fertilization.
It has dextrally coiled body symmetry.
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.
Geospatial Information
Countries: Philippines, North Zululand, South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, and The Seychelles (living usually at depths less than 100 m)
Precise Location: Cebu Is.(North Coast), Bohol Strait
Ref: [MUSEUMS VICTORIA COLLECTIONS]
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.
External links Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R. (1903). Descriptions of sixty-eight new Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North Arabian Sea, dredged by the Indo-European Telegraph Service, 1901–1903. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (7) 12: 289-324