Polystira antillarum

Polystira antillarum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.

Description

(Description of Pleurotoma virgo) The shell is ridged and striated, the central ridge forming a carina. The shell is usually glossy white, but when covered by its epidermis corneous.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the West Indies (Guadeloupe).

References

• J. A. Todd and K. G. Johnson. 2013. Dissecting a marine snail species radiation (Conoidea: Turridae: Polystira) over 12 million years in the southwestern Caribbean. Bulletin of Marine Science 89(4)

External links

• Todd J.A. & Rawlings T.A. (2014). A review of the Polystira clade — the Neotropic's largest marine gastropod radiation (Neogastropoda: Conoidea: Turridae sensu stricto). Zootaxa. 3884(5): 445-491.