Tutufa bubo

Tutufa bubo
Five views of a shell of Tutufa bubo
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Bursidae
Genus: Tutufa
Species:
T. bubo
Binomial name
Tutufa bubo
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
  • Bursa bubo Linnaeus
  • Bursa lampas C. Linnaeus, 1758
  • Bursa rubeta gigantea Smith, E.A., 1914
  • Murex rana var. bubo Linnaeus, 1758
  • Bursa bubo lissostoma

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

  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 5 October 2012 .