Broderipia
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| 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]
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]
