Bursa (gastropod)

Bursa
Bursa tuberosissima, abapertural view
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Tonnoidea
Family: Bursidae
Genus: Bursa
Röding, 1798[1]
Type species
Bursa monitata Röding, 1798
Species

See text.

Synonyms[2]
  • Annaperenna Iredale, 1936
  • Bufonariella Thiele, 1929
  • Colubrellina Fischer, 1884
  • Dulcerana Iredale, 1931 (Unavailable, no differentiation from related taxa)
  • Dulcerana Oyama, 1964
  • Dulcerona Cotton, 1945 (Error. Unavailable, no differentiation from related taxa)
  • Lampadopsis Fischer, 1884 (Justified emendation of Lampasopsis Jousseaume, 1881)
  • Lampasopsis Jousseaume, 1881
  • Pseudobursa Rovereto, 1899 (Unnecessary replacement name for Bursa Röding, 1798)
  • Tritonoranella Oyama, 1964

Bursa is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Bursidae, the frog snails or frog shells. [2]

Contents

Recognized species

Species within the genus Bursa include[3][4][5] [2] :

Subgenus Bursa (Bufonariella) Thiele, 1929
  • Bursa (Bufonariella) latitudo T. A. Garrard, 1961
    • Bursa latitudo fosteri Beu, 1987
    • Bursa latitudo natalensis Coelho & Matthews, 1970
    • Bursa latitudo wolfei Beu, 1980
  • Bursa (Bufonariella) ranelloides (Reeve, 1844) - fine-sculpted frogsnail
    • Bursa ranelloides benvegnuae Penna-Neme & Leme, 1978
    • Bursa ranelloides humilis Beu, 1981
    • Bursa ranelloides tenuisculpta Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. ^ Röding P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens conchylia sive testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. pp. [1-3], [1-8], 1-199. Hamburg. page 128.
  2. ^ a b c WoRMS (2010). Bursa Röding, 1798. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137717 on 2010-11-27
  3. ^ "Bursa". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=73107. 
  4. ^ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  5. ^ Shell-bearing Mollusca : Gastropoda
  6. ^ Gastropods.com : Bufonaria (Bufonaria) fernandesi; accessed : 27 November 2010