''Apicalia'' is a

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of medium-sized

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s in the

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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 cucumbers, sea ...

.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:

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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 ''Apicalia angulata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.Warén, 1981. Warén A. (1981) Revision of the genera Apicalia A. Adams and Stilapex Iredale and description of two new genera (Mollusca, Pros ...

'' (Warén, 1981) * ''

Apicalia brazieri ''Apicalia brazieri'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae Eulimidae is a family of very small parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Vanikoroidea. Description ...

'' (Angas, 1877) * ''

Apicalia echinasteri ''Apicalia echinasteri'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.Warén, 1980. Warén A. (1981) Revision of the genera Apicalia A. Adams and Stilapex Iredale and description of two new genera (Mollusca, P ...

'' (Warén, 1980) * ''

Apicalia gibba ''Apicalia gibba'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.A. Adams, 1862. Warén A. (2011). Checklist of Eulimidae. pers. com. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species The World Register of ...

'' ( A. Adams, 1862) * ''

Apicalia habei ''Apicalia habei'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.Warén, 1980. Warén A. (2011). Checklist of Eulimidae. pers. com. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species The World Register of Ma ...

'' (Warén, 1980) * ''

Apicalia inflata ''Apicalia inflata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.Tate & May, 1901. Warén A. (1980) Descriptions of new taxa of Eulimidae (Mollusca, Prosobranchia), with notes on some previously described gen ...

'' (Tate & May, 1901) * ''

Apicalia ovata ''Apicalia'' is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eulimidae.A. Adams, 1862. Warén A. (1981) Revision of the genera Apicalia A. Adams and Stilapex Iredale and description of two new genera (Mollusca, P ...

'' (Pease, 1860) * ''

Apicalia palmipedis ''Apicalia palmipedis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.Koehler & Vaney, 1913. Warén A. (1980). Revision of the genera Thyca, Stilifer, Scalenostoma, Mucronalia and Echineulima (Mollusca, Prosobr ...

'' (Koehler & Vaney, 1913) * ''

Apicalia sandwichensis ''Apicalia sandwichensis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.G.B. Sowerby, II, 1866. Warén A. (2011). Checklist of Eulimidae. pers. com. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species The W ...

'' (G.B. Sowerby II, 1866) * ''

Apicalia taiwanica ''Apicalia taiwanica'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.Kuroda, 1964. Warén A. (2011). Checklist of Eulimidae. pers. com. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species The World Register o ...

'' (Kuroda, 1964) * ''

Apicalia tryoni ''Apicalia tryoni'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.Tate & May, 1900. Warén A. (2011). Checklist of Eulimidae. pers. com. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinesp ...

'' (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 ''

'' (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 sowerbyi'' (Barnard, 1963): synonym of '' Parvioris sowerbyi'' (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 {{Eulimidae-stub