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Class
Gastropoda 
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Class_C
腹足綱 
Order
Heteropoda 
Order_C
異足目 
Family
Bursidae 
Family_C
蛙螺科 
Genus_C
赤蛙螺屬 
Scientific Name
Bufonaria rana
Nomenclator
(Linnaeus, 1758) 
Chinese Name
赤蛙螺  China Name
Chinese Common Name
肉螺 
Synonym
 
English Common Name
Common Frog Shell 
Area
台灣、中國、越南、阿拉伯東部
Taiwan, Eastern Arabia
Distribution
分布於熱帶地區、尤以大西洋及太平洋的種類最多。在臺灣則以西南部較多、基隆及澎湖亦有發現。台灣海峽、浙江以南沿海、越南(Khanh Hoa、 Ninh Thuan)、阿拉伯東部 ("Oman", without more precise locality)
Habitat
大多棲息在岩礁性或砂質的淺海中,喜愛出沒在珊瑚礁之間,是一種肉食性的貝類,以環節動物或棘皮動物為食。通常將卵囊產於岩礁下方或珊瑚礁下方。潮下帶
Vietnam(Khanh Hoa, Ninh Thuan);Eastern Arabia ("Oman", without more precise locality)
Shell Character
殼長67mm,殼呈紡綞形,殼黃褐色帶有咖啡色的色彩,殼表有細密的螺肋,螺肋上有許多小顆粒突起,在殼表亦密布粒狀突起。與殼口同一平面上有兩個明顯縱螺肋,為黃褐色而帶有白色的紋路。殼口為白色,在殼口的邊緣有黃色的帶狀斑紋,且在殼口滑層上密布著顆粒。口蓋為角質,外形如一橄欖,上有扇形的紋路。本種與法螺形狀相似,但有一後水管溝可資區別。
Reference
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Remark
 臺灣的蛙螺科有三屬十八種(Lai 1987)其中以蛙螺屬 (Bufonaria)的赤蛙螺Bufonaria rana (Linnaeus, 1758)、朱唇蛙螺Bufonaria crumena (Lamarck, 1816)及棘蛙螺Bufonaria albivaricosa (Reeve, 1844)等較為常見,這些種類均可食用。
Uncommon in Vietnam


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