Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Bursa rugosa
Shallow to deep water
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Littorinimorpha
Superfamily
Tonnoidea
Family
Bursidae
Genus
Bursa
Species
rugosa
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Bursa calcipicta Dall, 1908 (per Cossignani, 1994), ? eventually synonym of Bursa corrugata (Perry, 1811) (per Abbott, 1974); AMNH: 117924, 156376, 156377, LACM: 34-198.6 (=AHF 324-35) (as Bursa rugosa (Sowerby, 1835)), ? CAS: 38972, 42186 (?as Bursa cruentata (Sowerby, 1835))
Origin: Native
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Bursa rugosa", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10264. Accessed 5 November 2026.