Apicalia
Genus of gastropods
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Apicalia is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eulimidae.[2][3]
| Apicalia | |
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| 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] | |
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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)
- Apicalia chuni Thiele, 1825
- Apicalia melvilli (Schepman, 1909)
- Apicalia scitula H. Adams, 1867
