Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Tonnoidea Genus Bursa Phylum Mollusca | Class Gastropoda Family Bursidae Scientific name Bursa corrugata Rank Species | |
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Similar Bursa, Bursa rhodostoma, Bursa granularis, Bursa bufonia, Bufonaria crumena | ||
Bursa corrugata (gaudy frog shell) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Bursidae, the frog shells.
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The subspecies Bursa corrugata lineata Nowell-Usticke, 1959 has vecome a synonym of Bursa granularis (Röding, 1798)
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa, the Canary Islands, Cape Verdes and Brazil; in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles.
Description
The maximum recorded shell length is 75 mm.
Habitat
Minimum recorded depth is 2 m. Maximum recorded depth is 137 m.
References
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