Broderipia eximia

Broderipia eximia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]

Broderipia eximia
Drawing with three views of a shell of Broderipia eximia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Subfamily: Fossarininae
Genus: Broderipia
Species:
B. eximia
Binomial name
Broderipia eximia
G. & H. Nevill, 1869 [1]

Description

The height of the shell attains 10 mm, its diameter 7 mm. This marine species (just as Broderipia nitidissima Deshayes, 1863) is more conical with a limpet-like form. The apex nearer the middle than the edge and a little curved upward. The elevated shell is patella-shaped, oblong-oval in outline, elevated. The profile from the apex to the posterior margin is straight or a little concave, from the apex to the anterior end it is a little convex. The surface is radiately ribbed, with shorter riblets inserted between the principal ones toward the periphery. The color is whitish, more or less marbled with blackish brown. The anterior of the shell shows a small central, opaque, white callus, the rest is brilliantly pearly and opalescent.[3]

Distribution

This marine shell occurs off southern Sri Lanka.

References
  1. G. & H. Nevill, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xxxviii, pt. 2, p. 69, t. 13, f. 7, 1869.
  2. Rosenberg, G. (2012). Broderipia eximia. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=594218 on 2012-11-23
  3. G.W. Tryon (1890) Manual of Conchology; Academy of natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890
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