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Tutufa bufo

Tutufa bufo
Tutufa bufo 2010 G1.jpg
shell of Tutufa bufo
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Tonnoidea
Family: Bursidae
Genus: Tutufa
Subgenus: Tutufa
Species: T. bufo
Binomial name
Tutufa bufo
(Röding, 1798)
Synonyms
  • Bursa (Tutufa) rubeta var. lissostoma E.A. Smith, 1914
  • Ranella lampas Iwakawa, 1900
  • Tritonium bufo Röding, 1798
  • Tutufa (Tutufa) lissostoma Smith, E.A., 1914
  • Tutufa robusta Cossignani, 2009

Tutufa bufo, common name the red-mouth frog shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Bursidae, the frog shells.

The size of an adult shell varies between 50 mm and 240 mm.

This marine species is distributed in the Indo-West Pacific.


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