This species is named after Friar Arnolde Broeders (1917-1981), one of the first amateur conchologists who studied molluscs in the Dutch West Indies in a scientific way. His large and valuable collection of West Indian marine, fresh water and land molluscs is now deposited in the Zoological Museum of Amsterdam (ZMA), through mediation of Dr. P. Wagenaar Hummelinck (University of Utrecht).