Stilifer astericola

Stilifer astericola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Family:	Eulimidae
Genus:	Stilifer
Species:	S. astericola
Binomial name
	Stilifer astericola; (Broderip, 1832)[1]

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]

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

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).

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[WoRMS-1] P. Bouchet (2010). "Stilifer astericola Broderip, 1832". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-02-04.

[2] Gosse, Philip Henry (1854). Mollusca. Natural History. p. 192.

[3] Anders Warén: Revision of the Genera Thyca, Stilifer, Scalenostoma, Mucronalia and Echineulima (Mollusca, Prosobranchia, Eulimidae). Zoologica Scripta 9, 1980, pp. 187–210.

[4] 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).