Bursa lamarckii (Lamarck's frog shell) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Bursidae, the frog shells.[1]
Bursa lamarckii | |
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Shell of Bursa lamarckii (Deshayes, 1853) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Bursidae |
Genus: | Bursa |
Species: | B. lamarckii
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Binomial name | |
Bursa lamarckii (Deshayes, 1853)
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The shell size varies between 33 mm and 80 mm.
This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the central and west Indo-Pacific region; also off the Philippines.
The snail is named after Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.