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 |
Binomial name | |
Apicalia brazieri (Angas, 1877) | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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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]
(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 .
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia.