Tutufa
Genus of gastropods
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Tutufa is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Bursidae, the frog shells.[1]
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| Two views of a shell of Tutufa bufo | |
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| Five views of a shell of Tutufa bubo | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Tonnoidea |
| Family: | Bursidae |
| Genus: | Tutufa Jousseaume, 1881 |
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Description
The shell is turreted. The whorls are nodose. The siphonal canal is very short and recurved.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Tutufa include:
- Tutufa bardeyi (Jousseaume, 1881)[3]
- Tutufa boholica Beu, 1987[4]
- Tutufa bubo (Linnaeus, 1758)[5]
- Tutufa bufo (Röding, 1798)[6]
- Tutufa hitoshiikedai Thach, 2023
- Tutufa kevini Thach, 2023
- Tutufa lucsegersi Thach, 2023
- Tutufa nigrita Mühlhäusser & Blöcher, 1979[7]
- Tutufa oyamai (Habe, 1973)[8]
- Tutufa robusta T. Cossignani, 2009
- Tutufa rubeta (Linnaeus, 1758)[9]
- Tutufa tenuigranosa (E.A. Smith, 1914)[10]
- Tutufa truongi Thach, 2023
