Alanbeuella corrugata

Bursa corrugata
	Apertural view of a shell of Bursa corrugata (Perry, 1811)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Tonnoidea
Family:	Bursidae
Genus:	Bursa
Species:	B. corrugata
Binomial name
	Bursa corrugata; (Perry, 1811)
Synonyms
	Biplex corrugata Perry, 1811; Bursa caelata (Broderip, 1833); Bursa caelata louisa M. Smith, 1948; Bursa pustulosa Reeve, 1844; Ranella caelata Broderip, 1833; Ranella ponderosa Reeve, 1844; Ranella pustulosa Reeve, 1844; Ranella pustulosa var. jabik Fischer-Piette, 1942; Ranella semigranosa Lamarck, 1822; Apertural view of Bursa corrugata (Perry, 1811) with operculum.

Bursa corrugata (gaudy frog shell) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Bursidae, the frog shells.^[1]

The subspecies Bursa corrugata lineata Nowell-Usticke, 1959 has become a synonym of Bursa granularis (Röding, 1798)

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa, the Canary Islands, Cape Verdes and Brazil; in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles.

The maximum recorded shell length is 75 mm.^[2]

Minimum recorded depth is 2 m.^[2] Maximum recorded depth is 137 m.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Bursa corrugata (Perry, 1811). WoRMS (2010). Bursa corrugata (Perry, 1811). 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=225330 on 19 June 2010 .
^ ^a ^b ^c Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.

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