Apicalia brazieri
| Apicalia brazieri | |
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| Shell of Apicalia brazieri | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Eulimidae |
| Genus: | Apicalia |
| Species: | A. brazieri
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| Binomial name | |
| Apicalia brazieri (Angas, 1877)
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Apicalia brazieri, common name Brazier's stilifer, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.[1]
Description
(Original description) The shell is rather acuminately ovate. It is smooth, pellucid, white, and polished. It has 6 rounded whorls, flattened just below the very finely callously marginate sutures. The spire is elevated, with a styliform (slender, pointed, and shaped like a stylus) apex. The aperture is subovate, pointed posteriorly and rounded anteriorly. The outer lip is thin and simple. The columella is arcuate and very slightly thickened superiorly, with its margins joined by a thin, distinct callus.[2]
This species is endoparasitic o the starfish Coscinasterias calamaria.
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia.
References
- ^ a b Apicalia brazieri (Angas, 1877). 13 September 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Angas, G.F. (1877). "Description of one genus and twenty-five species of marine shells from New South Wales". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1877: 173. Retrieved 13 September 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Cotton, B.C. 1957. Records of uncommon southern Australian Mollusca. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 13(1): 117–130
- Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109
- Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
External links
- Warén, A. (1981). "Revision of the genera Apicalia A. Adams and Stilapex Iredale and description of two new genera (Mollusca, Prosobranchia, Eulimidae)". Zoologica Scripta. 10 (2): 134. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.1981.tb00491.x.