Apicalia brazieri, common name Brazier's stilifer, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.
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.
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.
References
Cotton, B.C. 1957. Records of uncommon southern Australian Mollusca. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 13(1): 117–130 Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
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