Bursa verrucosa

Bursa verrucosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Tonnoidea
Family: Bursidae
Genus: Bursa
Species: B. verrucosa
Binomial name
Bursa verrucosa
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1825)
Synonyms

Ranella verrucosa Sowerby, 1825
Murex papilla Wood, 1828
Annaperenna verrucosa Iredale, 1936

Bursa verrucosa is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Bursidae, known as the frog shells.

Distribution

This species is found in portions of Australia, New Zealand,[1] and the Kermadec Islands, in moderate water depths.

References

  1. Powell A. W. B. (1979). New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand. ISBN 0-00-216906-1
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