Korrigania quirihorai

Korrigania quirihorai
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Tonnoidea
Family:	Bursidae
Genus:	Korrigania
Species:	K. quirihorai
Binomial name
Korrigania quirihorai (Beu, 1987)
Synonyms[1]
Bursa (Colubrellina) quirihorai Beu, 1987 Bursa quirihorai Beu, 1987 ·

Korrigania quirihorai 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 30 mm and 64 mm.^[citation needed]

This species was named after Quirino Hora from Panglao, Bohol, whose family owns the extensive Nova Shell Museum.^[citation needed]

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Korrigania quirihorai (Beu, 1987). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1472100 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