Brephodrillia is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of sea snail

Sea snail

Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....

s, marine gastropod mollusks in the family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Drilliidae

Drilliidae

Drilliidae is a taxonomic family of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.This family has no subfamilies.-Description:...

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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

Iredalea

Iredalea is a small genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Drilliidae.This genus was named in 1915 by Walter Oliver after Tom Iredale , an English-born naturalist who lived mainly in Australia.-Species:...

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:

• Brephodrillia ella
  Brephodrillia ella
  Brephodrillia ella is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. -External links:*...
  
  Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932
• Brephodrillia perfectus
  Brephodrillia perfectus
  Brephodrillia perfectus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. - External links :*...
  
  Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932