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Broderipia cumingii

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Broderipia cumingii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Subfamily: Fossarininae
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

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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

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This marine species occurs off the Philippines.

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