--- title: Stilapex polaris slug: stilapex-polaris qid: snapshot: enwiki-001379021790 content_hash: license: CC BY-SA 4.0 source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1379021790 tags: [132047180, 23118434, 23603337, 26846675, 32308905, 8181271, 88349073] --- # Stilapex polaris > [!note] Provenance > Snapshot `enwiki-001379021790` · content root `…` > Derived from · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 Stilapex polaris is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. Stilapex polaris is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. ==Description== The length of the shell attains 10 mm, its diamter 6 mm. (Original description) The shell is conic-acuminate, thin, and translucent, with a gradate spire that tapers to an attenuate, mucronate apex. There are nine whorls, which are mostly flattened at the suture and rounded at the periphery; the body whorl is subglobose. The shell is milk-white and has a very glossy surface. Narrow, faint spiral grooves are crossed by fine, radiating hair-like lines. The aperture is reniform; the columella is perpendicular, thickened, and reflected. The outer lip is thin-edged and sinuate anteriorly, while the anterior margin is rounded and slightly everted. There is no callus on the inner lip. ==Distribution== The marine species occurs in the contained in high seas of the Southern Ocean and off Antarctica. ==References==