Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Volutoidea > Family Cancellariidae > Subfamily Admetinae

Brocchinia Jousseaume, 1887

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Brocchinia azorica (Bouchet & Warén, 1985)
Brocchinia canariensis Rolán & Hernández, 2009
Brocchinia clenchi Petit, 1986
Brocchinia nodosa (A. E. Verrill & S. Smith, 1885)

Literature

original description	Jousseaume F.P. (1887). La famille Cancellariidae (Mollusques Gastéropodes). Le Naturaliste. ser. 2, 9(13): 155-157 [15 September 1887]; 9(16): 192-194 [1 November 1887]; 9(18): 213-214 [1 December 1887]; 9(19): 221-223 [15 December 1887].
basis of record	Hemmen, J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and errata for, Recent Cancellariidae by Jens Hemmen, 2007. Conchologia Ingrata 9: 1-8].
additional source	Petit R.E. & Harasewych M.G. (2005). Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) - 2nd edition. Zootaxa. 1102: 3-161.
subsequent type designation	Sacco, F. (1894). I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XVI. (Cancellariidae). Carlo Clausen, Torino, 82 pp., 3 pl.Carlo Clausen, Torino]

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Brocchinia Jousseaume, 1887. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137725