The Bursidae, common name "frog snails" or "frog shells", are a small taxonomic family of large sea snails, marine gastropod predatory snails in the clade Littorinimorpha. [1]

Tutufa (Tutufa) bubo, common name the "giant frog snail" or "giant frog shell", is a species of extremely large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Bursidae, the frog shells. [1]

Bursa is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Bursidae, the frog snails or frog shells. [2] The ovate or oblong shell is compressed, and shows two rows of continuous varices, one on each side. The aperture is ova. The columella is arcuated, and ridged or crenulated. The siphonal canal is short and recuvred.

Other articles where frog shell is discussed: gastropod: Classification: shells (Cassidae), tun shells (Doliidae), frog shells (Bursidae), triton shells (Cymatiidae), and fig shells (Ficidae); frog and triton shells often live in rocky areas; most species large in size.

Frog Seashells are beautiful shells from the South Pacific, and are a close relative to the triton sea shells with similar characteristics. The name "Frog Shell" is derived from the knobby sculpture of most species, which resembles the warty skin of a frog.

Shells of the family Bursidae are commonly called Frog Shells because of their warty, pustulose surface. They resemble the tritons in shape and size, but differ by having an anal canal at the posterior end of the aperture in addition to the normal siphonal canal at the anterior end.

Frog shells are active predators, and appear to feed on bristle worms (Polychaeta) that they anaesthetize with acidic saliva through their extensible, distally flattened probosces. A proboscis is an elongated appendage from the head of an animal, either a vertebrate or an invertebrate.

Bursa is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Bursidae, the frog snails or frog shells. Bursas have an ovate or oblong compressed shell, and shows two rows of continuous varices, one on each side.

The meaning of FROG SHELL is any of numerous chiefly tropical gastropod mollusks (family Cymatiidae) that resemble the related tritons but have notably thick heavy rugose or tuberculated shells; also : a shell of one of these mollusks.

Apr 18, 2024 · Granular Frog Shell : Dulcerana granularis (Roding, 1798) Shell Features: This shell has 6-7 shell whorls with two large varices that for continuous ridges on opposite sides of the shell. It has spiral lines of beads running across the shell with a slightly larger row running at the shoulder of each whorl.