Bursa (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Bursa"
status =


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
familia = Bursidae
genus = "Bursa"
genus_authority = Röding, 1798
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.
synonyms = "Annaperenna" Iredale, 1936

"Bursa" is a genus of marine gastropod molluscs in the family Bursidae.

The shells are moderate to very large, often very thick and solid. The operculum is thick and horny, and the nucleus varies from to terminal.

pecies in the genus "Bursa"

* "Bursa bubo lissostoma" E. A. Smith, 1914
* "Bursa bufo" (Bruguiere, 1792)
* "Bursa bufonia" (Gmelin, 1791)
* "Bursa calcipicta" Dall, 1908
* "Bursa californica" (Hinds, 1843)
* "Bursa corrugata" Perry, 1811 - gaudy frogsnail
* "Bursa finlayi" Mcginty, 1962
* "Bursa granularis" Röding, 1798 - Cuba frogsnail
* "Bursa grayana" Dunker, 1862 - elegant frogsnail
* "Bursa ranelloides" (Reeve, 1844) - fine-sculpted frogsnail
* "Bursa rhodostoma" (G. B. Sowerby I or II, 1835) - St. Thomas frogsnail
* "Bursa tenuisculpta" (Dautzenberg and Fischer, 1906)
* "Bursa thomae" (d'Orbigny, 1842)
* "Bursa verrucosa" (G. B. Sowerby I or II, 1825)

References

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