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Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tutufa is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Bursidae, the frog shells.[1]
Tutufa | |
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Two views of a shell of Tutufa bufo | |
Five views of a shell of Tutufa bubo | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Tonnoidea |
Family: | Bursidae |
Genus: | Tutufa Jousseaume, 1881 |
Synonyms[1] | |
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The shell is turreted. The whorls are nodose. The siphonal canal is very short and recurved.[2]
Species within the genus Tutufa include:
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