Apicalia brazieri

Apicalia brazieri
Shell of Apicalia brazieri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Eulimidae
Genus:	Apicalia
Species:	A. brazieri
Binomial name
Apicalia brazieri (Angas, 1877)
Synonyms [1]
Apicalia immaculata (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1900) Stylifer brazeriAngas, 1877 Stylifer immaculataPritchard & Gatliff, 1900

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

1. Apicalia brazieri (Angas, 1877) . 13 September 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. 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.