Broderipia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]

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 [1]
Type species
Scutella rosea
Broderip, W.J., 1834

Description

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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.[3][4]

Distribution

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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

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Species within the genus Broderipia include:

References

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  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp