Stilifer astericola is a parasitic sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the taxonomic family Eulimidae. It is the type species of the genus Stilifer.[1]
| Stilifer astericola | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Eulimidae |
| Genus: | Stilifer |
| Species: | S. astericola
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| Binomial name | |
| Stilifer astericola | |
The species was discovered in the Malay Archipelago by Hugh Cuming. It was found burrowing in different parts of the oral disc of Heliaster cumingi.[2][3][4]
References edit
- ^ a b P. Bouchet (2010). "Stilifer astericola Broderip, 1832". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-02-04.
- ^ Gosse, Philip Henry (1854). Mollusca. Natural History. p. 192.
- ^ Anders Warén: Revision of the Genera Thyca, Stilifer, Scalenostoma, Mucronalia and Echineulima (Mollusca, Prosobranchia, Eulimidae). Zoologica Scripta 9, 1980, pp. 187–210.
- ^ Philip Henry Gosse (1854). Natural History – Mollusca, pp. 192. Here Stylifer astericola and Asterias Solaris: According to Christopher Mah (2009), WoRMS, Asterias solaris Carpenter, 1856 is a synonym of Heliaster cumingi (Gray, 1840); this species is not the homonym Asterias solaris Schreber, 1793, which is, according to Christopher Mah (2017), WoRMS, a synonym of Acanthaster solaris (Linnaeus, 1758).