Broderipia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Description 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. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. pt. 18-19 (1850-1851)G.W. Tryon (1890) Manual of Conchology; Academy of natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1890
Distribution The species of this marine genus occurs in the Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, Mauritius, New Caledonia, French Polynesia and in the Pacific Ocean.
Species Species within the genus Broderipia include: Broderipia cumingii A. Adams, 1851 Broderipia eximia G. & H. Nevill, 1869 Broderipia iridescens (Broderip, 1834) Broderipia nitidissima Deshayes, 1863 Broderipia rosea (Broderip, 1834) Broderipia subiridescens (Pilsbry, 1890)
References
Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . XII, 195 pp