Orania pholidota

Orania pholidota
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Ergalataxinae
Genus: Orania
Species: O. pholidota
Binomial name
Orania pholidota
(Watson, 1883)
Synonyms[1]

Fusus cereus E.A. Smith, 1884
Murex pholidotus Watson, 1883

Orania pholidota is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

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