''Apicalia'' is a
genus
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of medium-sized
sea snails,
marine
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gastropod mollusk
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s in the
family
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Eulimidae
Eulimidae is a family of very small parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Vanikoroidea.
Description
These small parasitic snails live on (or in some cases in) the bodies of echinoderms such as sea cucumber ...
.
[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. une 1981 Accessed through: ]World Register of Marine Species
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms.
Content
The content of the registry is edited and maintained by scientific speciali ...
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]
Species
The species within this genus include:
* ''
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 sandwichensis''
(G.B. Sowerby II, 1866)
* ''
Apicalia taiwanica''
(Kuroda, 1964)
* ''
Apicalia tryoni''
(Tate & May, 1900)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Apicalia biformis'' (G.B. Sowerby III, 1897): synonym of ''
Echineulima biformis
''Echineulima biformis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.G. B. Sowerby III, 1897. Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zoota ...
'' (
Sowerby III
George Brettingham Sowerby III (16 September 1843 – 31 January 1921) was a British conchologist, publisher, and illustrator.
He, too, worked (like his father George Brettingham Sowerby II and his grandfather George Brettingham Sowerby I) on the ...
, 1897)
* ''Apicalia cicatricosa'' (Warén, 1981): synonym of ''
Annulobalcis cicatricosa
''Annulobalcis cicatricosa'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eulimidae.Warén, 1981. Dgebuadze P.Y., Fedosov A.E. & Kantor Y.I. (2012) Host specificity of parasitic gastropods of the genus Annulobalcis Habe, 19 ...
'' (Warén, 1981)
* ''Apicalia guentheri'' (Angas, 1877): synonym of ''
Stilifer guentheri
''Stilifer guentheri'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of a number within the genus '' Stilifer''.(Angas, 1877). Warén A. (2011). Checklist of Eulimidae. pers. com. Accessed thro ...
'' (Angas, 1877)
* ''Apicalia holdsworthi'' (H. Adams, 1874): synonym of ''
Vitreobalcis holdsworthi
''Vitreobalcis'' is a genus of very small ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the Eulimidae family
Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recog ...
'' (
H. Adams, 1874)
* ''Apicalia immaculata'' (Pritchard & Gatliff, 1900): synonym of ''
Apicalia brazieri'' (Angas, 1877)
* ''Apicalia mabuti'' (Nomura & Hatai, 1935): synonym of ''
Parvioris fulvescens
''Parvioris'' is a genus of small ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eulimidae
Eulimidae is a family of very small parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Vanikoroidea.
Description
...
'' (
A. Adams, 1866)
* ''Apicalia micans'' (Tenison Woods, 1875): synonym of ''
Eulima tenisoni
''Eulima tenisoni'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of a number within the genus ''Eulima''.Tenison Woods, 1875. Warén A. (2011). Checklist of Eulimidae. pers. com. Accessed throu ...
'' (
Tryon, 1886)
* ''Apicalia sowerbyi'' (Barnard, 1963): synonym of ''
Parvioris sowerbyi
''Parvioris'' is a genus of small ectoparasitic sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Eulimidae.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Parvioris Warén, 1981. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Spec ...
'' (Barnard, 1963)
References
* Adams A. (1862). ''On some new species of Mollusca from Japan.'' Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 9: 295-298
External links
To World Register of Marine Species
Eulimidae
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