Granular Frogsnail Bursa cubaniana

Classification

Bursidae [family]

Bursa [genus] (5)

Bursidae [family]

Bursa [genus] (5)

Recorded on	Aruba
	Curaçao
	Sint Eustatius

Presence status	Indigenous (1) - Aruba
	Indigenous (1) - Curaçao
	Indigenous (1) - Sint Eustatius

Notes on presence status	Previously also recorded as Bursa granularis (Röding, 1798), Bursa granularis granularis (Röding, 1798) and Bura granularis cubaniana (d'Orbigny, 1841). Molecular research suggest that all specimens of these species are one and the same species for the tropical western Atlantic identified as Bursa cubaniana (d'Orbigny, 1841) (Sanders et al., 2017).

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