Apicalia brazieri

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Apicalia brazieri
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Shell of Apicalia brazieri
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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]

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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. 1 2 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.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .