About this species
Tutufa bufo, common name the red-mouth frog shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Bursidae, the frog shells.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Tutufa bufo”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 0 records
- February: 3 records
- March: 3 records
- April: 2 records
- May: 3 records
- June: 3 records
- July: 4 records
- August: 2 records
- September: 1 records
- October: 3 records
- November: 7 records
- December: 1 records
Depth and water temperature
Depth
Mostly recorded at 12–200 m · Deepest record: 235 m
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 19–29 °C
Names and classification
Names in 1 more languages
- Japanese
- オオナルトボラ
Other scientific names: Bursa lissostoma, Tritonium bufo, Tutufa (Tutufa) bufo
Similar species
- Giant frogsnail
Tutufa bubo
- Red-mouthed frogsnail
Tutufa rubeta
Common frogsnailBufonaria rana
Granular Frog ShellDulcerana granularis
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 158 open-data records from 1914 to 2011.
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