Polystira oxytropis

Polystira oxytropis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]

Polystira oxytropis
Drawing of a shell of Polystira oxytropis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Turridae
Genus: Polystira
Species:
P. oxytropis
Binomial name
Polystira oxytropis
(Sowerby I, 1834)
Synonyms[1]
  • Pleuroliria artia Berry, 1957 ·
  • Pleuroliria parthenia Berry, 1957
  • Pleurotoma albicarinata G. B. Sowerby II, 1870
  • Pleurotoma oxytropis Sowerby I, 1834

Description

The horn-colored shell contains several sharp keels and numerous spiral raised lines. The upper keel is the strongest, angulating the whorls, the surface concave above it. [2]

P. oxytropis is considered an "umbrella species" with considerable diversity as shown by DNA sequence data coupled with conchological studies. [3]

Distribution

This is an Eastern Pacific species, occurring off Western Mexico, in the Gulf of Panama and the Pacific coast of Colombia.

References

  • Berry S.S. (1957). Notices of new eastern Pacific Mollusca.- I. Leaflets in Malacology. 1(14): 75-82.
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