Apicalia

Apicalia is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eulimidae.^[2][3]

Apicalia
Shell of Apicalia gibba
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Eulimidae
Genus:	Apicalia A. Adams, 1862
Synonyms[1]
Chryseulima Laseron, 1955

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. ^[4]

Species

The species within this genus include:^[5]

• 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)

Species inquirenda

• Apicalia chuni Thiele, 1825
• Apicalia melvilli (Schepman, 1909)
• Apicalia scitula H. Adams, 1867