Tutufa bubo

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Tutufa bubo
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Five views of a shell of Tutufa bubo
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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 buboLinnaeus
  • Bursa lampasC. Linnaeus, 1758
  • Bursa rubeta giganteaSmith, E.A., 1914
  • Murex rana var. buboLinnaeus, 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]

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Description

The solid shell is large. The sculpture is coarse. The length of an adult shell varies between 100 mm and 337 mm.

Distribution

This frog shell is found in the tropics from low water to depths up to 180 m, mainly among rocks and coral. It occurs in the Red Sea, off the Philippines and in the Indo-Pacific Oceans.

References

  1. 1 2 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 .