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

  1. ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2012). Broderipia cumingii. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=594221 on 2012-11-23
  2. ↑ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Margarita cumingii)
  3. ↑ Adams, A. 1850. An arrangement of Stomatellidae, including the characters of a new genus Cumingia, with some additional generic characters; Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. pt. 18-19 (1850-1851) (described as Broderipia cumingii)
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