Apicalia gibba

Apicalia gibba
Shell of Apicalia gibba (specimen at the Natural History Museum, London)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Eulimidae
Genus:	Apicalia
Species:	A. gibba
Binomial name
Apicalia gibba A. Adams, 1862

Apicalia gibba is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. ^[1]

Description

(Original description) The oblique shell has an elevated-conical shape. It is white, solid, and scarcely opaque. There are four normal whorls, which are convex and somewhat swollen, with the uppermost narrowed and arranged in the form of a mucro (a sharp point). The aperture is oblique and ovate, and the outer lip is slightly thickened. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan.

References

1. Apicalia gibba A. Adams, 1862 . 134September 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Adams, A. (1862). "On some new species of Mollusca from Japan". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 3 (9): 295. Retrieved 14 September 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 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).