Bufonaria

Bufonaria
Shell of Bufonaria rana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Tonnoidea
Family: Bursidae
Genus: Bufonaria
Schumacher, 1817[1]
Type species
Bufonaria spinosa
Schumacher, 1817
Genera

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Synonyms[2]
  • Bufonaria (Chasmotheca) Dall, 1904
  • Chasmotheca Dall, 1904

Bufonaria is a genus of medium-large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Bursidae, the "frog snails".[2]

Drawing of the shell of Bufonaria crumena.
  1. ^ Schumacher H. C. F. (1817). Ess. Vers test. 76: 251.
  2. ^ a b Rosenberg, G. (2010). Bufonaria Schumacher, 1817. 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=206366 on31 March 2012