Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Bursa corrugata corrugata
búrsida llamativa, Gaudy frogsnail
Length: 55 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), low intertidal and sublittoral.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neotaenioglossa
Superfamily
Tonnoidea
Family
Bursidae
Genus
Bursa
Species
corrugata
Subspecies
corrugata
Taxon category: Species with Infraspecific Taxa
Syn.: Bursa caelata (Broderip, 1833); CDRS: 231, 246, 280 (all as Bursa corrugata); 1544 (as Bursa caelata)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Gulf of California to south of Mexico (Guaymas) to Peru and Ecuador including Galapagos Islands, also in the Western Atlantic
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. Finet, Y. (1999) A Field Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 150 pp.
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (2021) Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Www.itis.gov
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"Galapagos Species Database, Bursa corrugata corrugata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8071. Accessed 31 October 2026.