| Korrigania fosteri | |
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| Apertural view of Korrigania fosteri Beu, 1987 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Tonnoidea |
| Family: | Bursidae |
| Genus: | Korrigania |
| Species: | K. fosteri |
| Binomial name | |
| Korrigania fosteri Beu, 1987 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Korrigania fosteri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Bursidae, the frog shells.[1]
Description
The length of the shell varies between 24 mm and 77.5 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Philippines and New Caledonia.
References
- 1 2 MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Korrigania fosteri (Beu, 1987). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1472099 on 2023-07-20
External links
- Beu A.G. (1987 ("1986") ). Taxonomy of gastropods of the families Ranellidae (= Cymatiidae) and Bursidae. Part 2. Descriptions of 14 new modern Indo-West Pacific species and subspecies, with revisions of related taxa. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 13: 273-355.
- Sanders M.T., Merle D., Laurin M., Bonillo C. & Puillandre N. (2021 (nomenclatural availability: 2020) ). Raising names from the dead: a time-calibrated phylogeny of frog shells (Bursidae, Tonnoidea, Gastropoda) using mitogenomic data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 156: 107040: 1-12.
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