Bufonaria echinata
Appearance
Bufonaria echinata | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Bursidae |
Genus: | Bufonaria |
Species: | B. echinata
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Binomial name | |
Bufonaria echinata (Link, 1807)
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Synonyms[1][2] | |
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Bufonaria echinata, the spiny frog shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Bursidae, the frog shells.[1]
Description
[edit]The shell size is between 50mm and 85 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in the Red Sea; off Madagascar, in the Indian Ocean, off the Philippines and China.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Bufonaria echinata (Link, 1807). WoRMS (2010). Bufonaria echinata (Link, 1807). 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=476440 on 30 October 2010 .
- ^ "Bufonaria (Bufonaria) echinata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp.
- Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp.
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice.
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