Apicalia brazieri

Apicalia brazieri, common name Brazier's stilifer, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.^[1]

Apicalia brazieri
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]
Apicalia immaculata (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1900) Stylifer brazeri Angas, 1877 Stylifer immaculata Pritchard & Gatliff, 1900

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.^[2]

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.