Bursa (genus)

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Hinea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Sorbeoconcha
Family: Bursidae
Genus: Bursa
Röding, 1798
Species

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 mediolateral to terminal.

[edit] Species 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)

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