Biology:Apicalia
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Apicalia is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eulimidae.[1][2]
Characteristics
(Original description in Latin) The shell is distorted, polished, imperforate, and subulate. It features irregular whorls, with the superior ones forming a distinct apex. The aperture is oblong, and the outer lip is simple.
It is milk-white, without any coloured markings, and the whorls are distorted ; but it has the very peculiar mucro (a sharp, pointed tip or apex) observed in Stilifer and Mucronalia. [3]
Species
The species within this genus include:[4]
- Apicalia angulata (Warén, 1981)
- Apicalia brazieri (Angas, 1877)
- Apicalia echinasteri (Warén, 1980)
- Apicalia gibba (A. Adams, 1862)
- Apicalia habei (Warén, 1980)
- Apicalia inflata (Tate & May, 1901)
- Apicalia ovata (Pease, 1860)
- Apicalia palmipedis (Koehler & Vaney, 1913)
- Apicalia taiwanica (Kuroda, 1964)
- Apicalia tryoni (Tate & May, 1900)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Apicalia biformis (G.B. Sowerby III, 1897): synonym of Echineulima biformis (Sowerby III, 1897)
- Apicalia cicatricosa (Warén, 1981): synonym of Annulobalcis cicatricosa (Warén, 1981)
- Apicalia guentheri (Angas, 1877): synonym of Stilifer guentheri (Angas, 1877)
- Apicalia holdsworthi (H. Adams, 1874): synonym of Vitreobalcis holdsworthi (H. Adams, 1874)
- Apicalia immaculata (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1900): synonym of Apicalia brazieri (Angas, 1877)
- Apicalia mabuti (Nomura & Hatai, 1935): synonym of Parvioris fulvescens (A. Adams, 1866)
- Apicalia micans (Tenison Woods, 1875): synonym of Eulima tenisoni (Tryon, 1886)
- Apicalia sandwichensis [sic]: synonym of Mucronalia sandvichensis (G. B. Sowerby II, 1865): synonym of Apicalia ovata (Pease, 1861) (misspelling)
- Apicalia sowerbyi (Barnard, 1963): synonym of Parvioris sowerbyi (Barnard, 1963)
- Apicalia chuni Thiele, 1825
- Apicalia melvilli (Schepman, 1909)
- Apicalia scitula H. Adams, 1867
References
- ↑ A. Adams, 1862. 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: 133-154. [June 1981]. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=536098 on 2013-02-01.
- ↑ Warén A. (1984) A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies suppl. 13: 1-96. page(s): 29
- ↑ Adams, A. (1862). "On some new species of Mollusca from Japan". Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 (9): 295. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22219749. Retrieved 11 September 2025.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ↑ David Herbert (2021). "Apicalia A. Adams, 1862". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=536098.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q4779802 entry
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