Orania corallina

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
Precise Location: Cebu Is., Bohol Strait

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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.