Broderipia
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| Drawing with three views of a shell of Broderipia eximia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Subfamily: | Fossarininae |
| Genus: | Broderipia Gray, 1847 [1] |
| 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.[2]
Description
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Species within the genus Broderipia include:
- Broderipia cumingii A. Adams, 1851
- Broderipia eximia G. & H. Nevill, 1869
- Broderipia iridescens (Broderip, 1834)
- Broderipia nitidissima Deshayes, 1863
- Broderipia rosea (Broderip, 1834)[5]
- Broderipia subiridescens (Pilsbry, 1890)[6]
References
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- ↑ Gray, 1847, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 15: 146
- ↑ Broderipia Gray, 1847. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 November 2012.
- ↑ Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. pt. 18-19 (1850-1851)
- ↑ G.W. Tryon (1890) Manual of Conchology; Academy of natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890
- ↑ Broderipia rosea (Broderip, 1834). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
- ↑ 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
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