Broderipia cumingii

Broderipia cumingii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Broderipia
Species: B. cumingii
Binomial name
Broderipia cumingii
A. Adams, 1851
Synonyms

Margarita cumingii (A. Adams, 1851)

Broderipia cumingii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]

Description

The broadly umbilicated shell has an elevated-conical shape. It is cinereus, painted with brown undulating lines. The whorls are ornamented with transverse riblets, the last with 3 median lirae, longitudinally elevated striate. The large umbilicus is encircled by a crenulated cingulus, and within elegantly decussated by radiating and transverse lines. [2] It is distinguished from Broderipia iridescens by its prominent angulated columellar margiu and granulato-corrugose surface. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines.

References

External identifiers for Broderipia cumingii
WoRMS 594221
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