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Bufonaria

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Description

Bufonaria is a genus of medium-large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Bursidae, the "frog snails".

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufonaria, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2299246	https://www.gbif.org/species/2299246
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	59418	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=59418

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Bursidae : Bufonaria

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Bursidae : Bufonaria

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
superorder	Hypsogastropoda
infraorder	Littorinimorpha	Golikov and Starobogtov 1975
superfamily	Tonnoidea	(Suter 1913)
family	Bursidae	Thiele 1925
genus	Bufonaria	Schumacher 1817

Scientific Name

Bufonaria Schumacher, 1817

Name Published In

Schumacher, Chrétien F. 1817. Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenhague.: ; 1-287; pls. i-xxii.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Bufonaria	subgenus	belongs to Ranella	stated with evidence	Martin, 1899
Bufonaria	subgenus	belongs to Ranella	stated without evidence	Vredenburg, 1925
Bufonaria	subgenus	belongs to Bursa	stated with evidence	Cox, 1948
Bufonaria	genus	belongs to Bursidae	implied	Wilson, 1993
Bufonaria	genus	belongs to Bursidae	stated with evidence	Beu, 2005

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

13 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

48.6 - 37.2 Ma
Eocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Bursidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Bursidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

B. Wilson. 1993. Australian Marine Shells 1

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufonaria

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Bufonaria (Bufonaria) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		18	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Bufonaria cavitensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bufonaria cristinae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bufonaria crumena species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bufonaria echinata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bufonaria elegans species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	48.6 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Bufonaria foliata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bufonaria granosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bufonaria margaritula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bufonaria perelegans species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bufonaria prelegans species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bufonaria rana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bufonaria scobilator species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bufonaria thersites species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Buffonaria Gray, 1847	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Bursidae : *Buffonaria*
Chasmotheca Dall, 1904	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Bursidae : *Chasmotheca*
Bofonaria	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Bursidae : *Bofonaria*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1817	Bufonaria Schumacher p. 251
1899	Ranella (Bufonaria) Martin p. 147
1904	Chasmotheca Dall p. 118
1925	Ranella (Bufonaria) Vredenburg p. 258
1935	Bursa (Chasmotheca) Oostingh p. 61
1948	Bursa (Bufonaria) Cox p. 41
1960	Bursa (Bufonaria) MacNeil p. 60
1993	Bufonaria Wilson p. 225
2002	Chasmotheca Sepkoski, Jr.
2005	Bufonaria Beu p. 8

References

Wilson B. (1993) , Australian Marine Shells 1

Vredenburg E. (1925) Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Cephalopoda, Opisthobranchiata, Siphonostomata, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 50 1, 1-350

Oostingh C. H. (1935) Die Mollusken des Pliozäns von Boemiajoe (Java), Dienst van den Mijnbouw in Nederlandsch-Indië Wetenschappelijke Mededeelingen 26, 1-247

MacNeil F. S. (1960) Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 339, 1-148

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Beu A. G. (2005) Neogene fossil tonnoidean gastropods of Indonesia, Scripta Geologica 130, 1-186

Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Beu, A. (2010). Catalogue of Tonnoidea. Pers. comm. - via World Register of Marine Species

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Ess. Vers test., 76 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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