Bursa verrucosa

Taxobox
name = "Bursa verrucosa"


status =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
familia = Bursidae
genus = "Bursa"
species = "B. verrucosa"
binomial = "Bursa verrucosa"
binomial_authority = (Sowerby, 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 endemic to eastern Australia including Lord Howe Island, and the North Island of New Zealand between North Cape and East Cape including offshore islands and the Kermadec Islands.

Habitat

This frog shell is found at depths of between 10 and 50 m.

hell description

This large shell is coloured cream, the nodes are a dark-brown, and there are purplish-brown lines in the interstices of the inner lip wrinkles.

The shell height is up to 57 mm, and the width is up to 33 mm.

References

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