Broderipia
Sign in to saveBroderipia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderTrochida
- FamilyTrochidae
Habitatmarine
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 7
- Family
- Trochidae
- Collections
- MNHN, MAGNT, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Nouvelle-Caledonie, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles
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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.
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