Forreria

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

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|image = Forreria corteziana (MNHN-IM-2014-6953).jpeg

|image_caption= Shell of Forreria corteziana (paratype at MNHN, Paris)

|taxon = Forreria

|authority = Jousseaume, 1880

|type_species = Murex belcheri Hinds, 1844

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Forreria is a genus of marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.{{WRMS species|403853|Forreria Jousseaume, 1880||25 April 2010}}

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.{{cite book|last=Petuch|first=Edward|title=Molluscan Paleontology of the Chesapeake Miocene|year=2010|publisher=CRC Press|location=Boca Raton, Florida|isbn=9781439811597|pages=41|author2=Mardie Drolshagen}}