Apicalia brazieri

Apicalia brazieri, common name Brazier's stilifer, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.

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.

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

• 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.

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