Apicalia | |
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Shell of Apicalia gibba | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Eulimidae |
Genus: | Apicalia A. Adams, 1862 |
Synonyms [1] | |
ChryseulimaLaseron, 1955 |
Apicalia is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eulimidae. [2] [3]
(Original description in Latin) The shell is distorted, polished, imperforate, and subulate. It features irregular whorls, with the superior ones forming a distinct apex. The aperture is oblong, and the outer lip is simple.
It is milk-white, without any coloured markings, and the whorls are distorted ; but it has the very peculiar mucro (a sharp, pointed tip or apex) observed in Stilifer and Mucronalia . [4]
The species within this genus include: [5]