Tutufa bubo

Tutufa bubo
Apertural view of a 7 inch shell of Tutufa bubo
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Tonnoidea
Family: Bursidae
Genus: Tutufa
Subgenus: Tutufa
Species: T. bubo
Binomial name
Tutufa bubo
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
  • Bursa bubo Linnaeus
  • Murex rana var. bubo Linnaeus, 1758

Tutufa bubo, common name the "giant frog snail" or "giant frog shell", is a species of very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Bursidae, the frog shells.[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b Tutufa bubo (Linnaeus, 1758). WoRMS (2010). Tutufa (Tutufa) bubo (Linnaeus, 1758). 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=476597 on 19 June 2010.