Apicalia echinasteri

Apicalia echinasteri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Eulimidae
Genus: Apicalia
Species:
A. echinasteri
Binomial name
Apicalia echinasteri
Warén, 1980

Apicalia echinasteri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.[1]

This species is ectoparasitic on the starfish Echinaster luzonicus

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Australia (Queensland).

References

  1. ^ Apicalia echinasteri Warén, 1981. 13 September 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  • Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
  • 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 (2): 134.
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