Species Tutufa bufo (Röding, 1798)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tritonium bufo Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [128] [refers to Martini, 1780; 4, pl. 129, fig. 1238].

  Type data:

   Neotype BMNH 197384, Madagascar.
• Bursa (Tutufa) rubeta lissostoma Smith, E.A. 1914. Note on Bursa (Tutufa) rubeta (Bolton) = Triton lampas (Lamarck et auct.). Journal of Conchology 14: 226-231, pl. 4 [230, pl. 4, fig. 3] [as Bursa (Tutufa) rubeta var. lissostoma Smith, 1914].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 197384, Madagascar.

 

Generic Combinations

• Tutufa (Tutufa) bufo (Röding, 1798). —
  Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [228, pl. 43, fig. 17]
• Tutufa bufo (Röding, 1798). —
  Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [55] (new combination)

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Ranella lampas auct. [misidentification; not of Linnaeus, 1758]. —
  Tryon, G.W. 1880-1881. Tritonidae, Fusidae and Buccinidae. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 3 310 pp. [pp. 1-64, pls 1-24, Dec. 31, 1880; pp. 65-128, pls 26-52, Mar. 28, 1881; pp. 129-192, pls 53-79, Jun. 6, 1881; pp. 193-310, pls 80-87, Oct. 3, 1881] [pl.19, fig. 12]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, rock reef.

Extra Ecological Information

To 200 m

 

General References

Beu, A.G. 1981. Australian gastropods of the family Bursidae. Part 1. The families of Tonnacea, the genera of Bursidae, and revision of species previously assigned to Tutufa Jousseaume, 1881. Records of the Australian Museum 5 33: 248-324, figs 1-22 [272]

Beu, A.G. 1998. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae. A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna, with revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 178: 1-256 [174, figs 55 a, d]

Beu, A.G. 1999. Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae of Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Honshu, Japan. The Yuriyagai 7(1): 1-91 [52, fig. 99]

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [46, pls 108, 109]

Hedley, C. 1916. Further Notes on Bursa rubeta L. Journal of Conchology 2 15: 41-42 [42]

Iredale, T. 1931. Australian molluscan notes. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 18(4): 201–235, pls xxii–xxv [Date published 29 June] [214. pl. 23, fig. 5] (as T. lissostoma)

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [55]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [229, fig. 80I]

Okutani, T 1970. A small collection of Gastropod and Decapod Mollusks from the Seychelles Bank, Indian Ocean, by the Training Vessel Koyo-Maru in 1968. Venus 4 24: 123-130 [124, pl. 8, fig. 1]

Powell, A.W.B. 1967. New Zealand molluscan systematics with descriptions of new species. Part 6. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 6(3): 185-196, pls 136, 137 [189, pl. 36, fig. 8]

Powell, A.W.B. 1974. New Zealand molluscan systematics with descriptions of new species. Part 8. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 11: 197-207 [205] (as B. bubo lissostoma)

Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1986. Seashells of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 207 pp. [84, fig. 276]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [228, pl. 43, fig. 17]

Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp. [80, pl. 54, fig. 1]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [46, pls 108, 109] (Red Mouthed Frog Shell)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	TONNOIDEA	28-Mar-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		08-Mar-2012	MODIFIED