Orania pacifica (Nakayama, 1988)

Houart, Roland & Héros, Virginie, 2008, Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Fiji and Tonga, Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196, pp. 437-480 : 463

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scientific name	Orania pacifica (Nakayama, 1988)
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Morula pacifica Nakayama, 1988: 251 View in CoL , fig. 1.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Fiji. MUSORSTOM 10: stn CP 1371, Tonga. BORDAU 2: stn DW 1567, 21°02’S, 175°19’W, 351-356 18°12 S, 178°33’E, 135-151 m, 1 dd (damaged) GoogleMaps .— BORDAU 1: m, 1 dd; stn DW 1587, 18°37’ S, 173° 54’ W, 309-400 m, 1 dd.

stn DW 1440, 17°11’ S, 178°43’ W, 190-308 m, 1 dd.

DISTRIBUTION. — Indo-Pacific. Known from South Africa, Japan, the Philippines, New Caledonia, Fiji and Tonga (new records), shells only in 151-351 m, and the Marquesas Islands , live in 30-160 m.

REMARKS. — Orania pacifica is fairly common in the Philippines and the Marquesas but it is only known from a few specimens in the other localities. It is easily recognizable by its multispiral protoconch, broad and large teleoconch whorl with numerous primary, secondary and tertiary squamose spiral cords, and a short, broadly open, siphonal canal.