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Genus of gastropods

Broderipia
Drawing with three views of a shell of Broderipia eximia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Subfamily: Fossarininae
Genus: Broderipia
Gray, 1847
Type species
Scutella rosea
Broderip, W.J., 1834

Broderipia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

Description

The shell is limpet-shaped, non-spiral, oblong-ovate and flattened. The shell is bilaterally symmetrical when adult. The apex is either subcentral or posterior, and either remaining as a minute recumbent spiral or lost in the adult shell. The ovate aperture is very large and internally brilliantly iridescent or almost deprived of nacre.

Distribution

The species of this marine genus occurs in the Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, Mauritius, New Caledonia, French Polynesia and in the Pacific Ocean.

Species

Species within the genus Broderipia include:

References

  1. Gray, 1847, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 15: 146
  2. Broderipia Gray, 1847. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 November 2012.
  3. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. pt. 18-19 (1850-1851)
  4. G.W. Tryon (1890) Manual of Conchology; Academy of natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890
  5. Broderipia rosea (Broderip, 1834). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
  6. Broderipia subiridescens (Pilsbry, 1890). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
Taxon identifiers
Broderipia


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