Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Drilliidae | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Conoidea Rank Genus | |
Brephodrillia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.
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Taxonomy
H. Pilsbry and H. Lowe(1932) put in Brephodrillia the species of Iredalea with a dorsal varix. with Brephodrillia perfectus Pilsbry and Lowe, 1932 as type species. This genus is, however, considered a synonym of Iredalea Oliver, 1915 by Powell, 1966 In 1989 Vaught treated Brephodrillia as a subgenus of Iredalea.
In 2011 Bouchet et al. treated Brephodrillia again as a synonym of Iredalea.
Species
Species within the genus Brephodrillia include:
References
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